Five out of top ten LEED buildings in CEE region

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ROMANIA/CZECH REPUBLIC Five of the ten greenest LEED certified office buildings in the world are located in Bucharest and Prague.
The buildings in the CEE region include Business Garden Bucharest A, which scored 98 pct for LEED v3 Core & Shell, Business Garden Bucharest C (97 pct), Praga Studios (97 pct) in Prague, Business Garden Bucharest B (96 pct) and Visionary (95 pct) in Prague. Praga Studios in Karlín district and Visionary in Holešovice district were both developed by Skanska. “LEED certification at the ‘Platinum’ level is the standard of all the buildings that Skanska has compl
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