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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. Fri, 11/02/2018 - 19:24. November 02, 2018. Commercial buildings. Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. Plants are graded on a 100-point scale: Bronze: 30-49 points. Sustainability.

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

Building owners that utilize ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager will see a dramatic change in the 1 to 100 ENERGY STAR scores after August 26, 2018. commercial building space is benchmarked in Portfolio Manager (versus less than 1% of U.S. commercial building is LEED certified). You have 75 days to act. sort of) by the U.S.

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New Green Building Tax Credit is a Progressive Effort

Green Building Law Update

Bill 10-20 dramatically upgrades the Maryland county’s existing green building real property tax credit, prioritizing energy reduction in the name of GHG emission reduction, in new and existing commercial and multifamily buildings and ensuring incentives are now given only for buildings that surpass requirements of the County’s building code.

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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design. In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits. Much more than only anticipating rising water, RELi 2.0 in large measure.

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#68:? Energy Code Compliance

NH Construction Law

On June 12, 2018, Governor Sununu signed into law House Bill 1472 , repealing the state code for energy conservation in new construction ( RSA 155-D ) effective August 7, 2018. As with RSA 155-D, the 2009 IECC -- the version currently in effect in New Hampshire -- has different rules for residential and commercial buildings.

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Empowering Project Management Professionals Through Technology—Part 2 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The Associated General Contractors of America noted in a May 2018 report that construction employment is at its highest level in a decade , with more than 250,000 jobs added over the past year. According to the Commercial Construction Index, compiled for the first quarter of 2018 by the USG Corporation and the U.S.

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Resilient Flooring: The sustainable specification

Construction Specifier

So much of resilient flooring in commercial applications is installed over concrete slabs. Is the goal to achieve certification from a green building rating system? • FloorScore certification for indoor environmental quality. Otherwise, its service life can be cut short due to any number of failures. It is such a waste.