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.
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.
