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Carbon rule adds to builders' burden

By Jim Pickard and Dan Thomas

Published: March 13 2008 02:00 | Last updated: March 13 2008 02:00

Developers of office buildings and shopping centres will have to build them to zero-carbon standards by 2019.

The move marks a stepping up of the pressure on property companies, which are already compelled to produce entirely green homes by 2016.

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