A 1.3 million-square-foot Thousand Oaks, CA, retail center is the first U.S. property to earn the BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) USA In-Use certification, according to developer and owner Macerich.  The U.K.-based BREEAM standard has set its sights on the nearly 6 million existing buildings in the U.S. that, it says, are not a fit for other green-building certification programs.

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