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Major Developers Back BREEAM for Central and Eastern Europe |
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Written by Vector1Media
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
PR - Major European property developers have backed the introduction
of BREEAM at a recent meeting of the Central & Eastern European
(CEE) Developers' Sustainability Forum. The group includes developers and
consultants including AIG/Lincoln, Buro Happold, ING Real Estate, Orco
Property Group, ProLogis and Waterman International, who met in Warsaw
this month to discuss potential pilot projects.
David Lawrence, European Director - Construction & Development for AIG/Lincoln said "We
are delighted to have initiated this first meeting in Central &
Eastern Europe and see the enthusiastic response from developers,
consultants and environmental experts. Environmental certification is
an integral part of AIG/Lincoln's development process and it has been a
pleasure to work closely with BRE Global over the past two years and
to contribute to the content of the new BREEAM Europe certification
through our pilot projects. It is a document that is very much needed
in the region for developers to benchmark and improve their
environmental standards".
Martin Earl, CEE Director for Waterman International said "We
welcome the launch of the long established BREEAM system into Europe
and look forward to the opportunity to use our experience of BREEAM in
the UK to bring the benefits of using such a system to our clients and
stakeholders in the CEE region".
BRE Global is currently
seeking developers who wish to assess their projects across Europe
under the scheme during its first pilot year of operation. BRE Global
will also be running scheduled training courses in various locations
for consultants wishing to train to become BREEAM assessors
internationally.
BREEAM is also being used by the International
Council of Shopping Centres for retail pilot developments in Europe and
adapted by Toyota for its European retail operations. For more
information on BREEAM, go to http://www.breeam.org/
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