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- An advisory panel that the U.S. General Services Administration charged with reviewing the green building rating system that it should use for the coming years has concluded that GSA will do best to stick with the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standard.
- The Green Building Advisory Committee, which began work in 2011, had considered other green rating systems, such as Energy Star, as a possible replacement for the GSA's existing LEED building program.
- A number of LEED supporters, including 1,260 green building companies, urged that GSA not change, saying that doing so could well drive up building and leasing costs across the country.
From the article:
GSA’s application of LEED has helped in the agency’s building efficiency efforts, and there are now more than 4,000 LEED certified government projects with another 8,000 in the pipeline as registered projects. ...
