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China design company launches green effort

By Hu Yuanyuan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-03-31 18:08

Werkhart World Wide 5-Star Alliance, China's leading architecture design group, on Wednesday introduced the world's latest green building certificate DGNB, as its latest effort in sustainable development.

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Compared with LEED, the first certificatation program to evaluate green buildings, DGNB focuses more on encouraging lower-cost green building.

Green building, also known as green construction or sustainable building, is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from design to construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.