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BCO strengthens sustainability targets for offices in update to design guide

By 2023-02-20T09:12:00

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Source: City of London Corporation

Minimum target for offices upgraded from BREEAM ‘very good’ to ‘excellent’.

The British Council of Offices (BCO) has strengthened its sustainability targets in an early update to its influential guide for office designers.

The minimum BREEAM target rating in the BCO’s Guide to Specification, which is widely considered as the ‘design bible’ for the commercial sector, has been upgraded from ‘Very Good’ to ‘Excellent’.

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