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Largest Owner of Buildings in North America Considering LEED v4

Green Building Law Update

Given that the Federal Government is, by far, the largest owner of buildings in North America, and is also the owner or more green buildings and more LEED certified buildings than anyone else, this is significant. Green Building Council’s LEED 2009. GSA completed a supplemental review of the U.S. changes looming.”

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Solar Installer Sunrun Plans 800 Jobs At New Denver Office

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Solar Installer Sunrun Plans 800 Jobs At New Denver Office originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. has selected Denver, CO as the location for its newest corporate office. The company will open an office in downtown Denver before the end of 2015 and plans to hire up to 800 workers over the next few years.

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STATEMENT OF KEVIN KAMPSCHROER DIRECTOR OFFICE OF FEDERAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTWIDE POLICY U.S. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Building Information Management

What is the Green Building Certification System? What is Federal government’s role in using sound science and peer-reviewed studies to evaluate and implement advanced building technologies? The GSA is chartered to lead high performance building efforts including Congressionally-mandated review of green building certification systems.

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

The change is significant for buildings pursuing LEED or Green Globes certification, for buildings with GSA or other government space leases tied to an ENERGY STAR score of 75, for buildings in cities with mandatory benchmarking, and for the more than 450,000 commercial properties that have an ENERGY STAR score. You have 75 days to act.

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Vancouver Leaving LEED for Zero Emission Building Mandate, But.

Green Building Law Update

Maybe most significant, the Plan requires that any rezoning for privately owned development beginning in first quarter 2017 meet an as yet to be determined threshold that staff has suggested may require those newly permitted projects to reduce emissions by 70% when compared to 2007.

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Civil Engineering Marvels- 5 Tallest Skyscrappers

The Constructor

However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings and office building in the world. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel. Until 2007 it was the tallest building in the PRC, the fifth tallest in the world by roof height and the seventh tallest by pinnacle height.

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Business Report: GEICO Expansion Brings 1,000 New Jobs To Katy, TX

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Rick Perry, the GEICO Gecko and Tara Carthew, General Manager of Geico Houston Office. We’re excited about expanding our claims operations with our new Katy office,” Nicely said. “We with more 29,000 employees in 14 major offices around the country. GEICO Chairman and CEO Tony Nicely with Gov. Photo: governor.state.tx.us.).

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