Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 19, 2020

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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BD+C

JANUARY 5, 2017

After being pressured to scale back efficiency provisions in the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), code officials largely held the line on efficiency gains made in recent versions, according to Lauren Urbanek, Senior Energy Policy Advocate, Energy & Transportation program with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 5, 2019

The Department of Homeland Security maintains its project is on track, though it was reportedly supposed to open in 2018 and cost $400,000.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 30, 2020

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 were the very few words of Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., Such is a dramatically large issue with the economic contribution of real estate to the U.S.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 28, 2018

While this report targets defense infrastructure, the issue is far worse at the GSA and other non-DOD government agencies where there is a basic lack of understanding and implementation of organization-wide, best value, LEAN Facilities Management, and LEAN Construction Delivery Methods. Publicly Released: Mar 27, 2018.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 3, 2014

billion by 2018, with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.4%. billion by 2018. Non-consumer markets (healthcare, defense/security, enterprise, and industrial) are expected to reach $8.1 billion by 2018. billion in global annual revenues in 2018.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 5, 2017

Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America, that is also the owner or more green building and more LEED certified building than anyone else, uses a variant of ASHRAE 189.1-2009. Since 2013, the Department of Defense has used UFC 1-200-02 High Performance And Sustainable Building Requirement. ASHRAE 189.1

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Stok

DECEMBER 18, 2018

After a year like 2018, all we can really say is thank you. Here’s a shout-out to just some of the work we completed together in 2018. Let’s celebrate some of our clients that really took their commitment to high performance buildings to a new level in 2018! Client: Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Development of the 2018 version of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) is now underway. The 2018 version of the NGBS will be the fourth iteration of this national residential standard. Home Innovation Research Labs will again act as the secretariat, or administrator, of the NGBS development process.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 31, 2019

Buried in the Consolidated Appropriations Act last year was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA, commonly referred to as Superfund), 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.,

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 29, 2018

Oshkosh Corporation reports its 2018 first quarter net income was $56.4 Consolidated net sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 were $1.59 The Company reported double-digit percentage sales growth in the defense, access equipment and commercial segments. million, compared to $19.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2017.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In Sandford’s case, that period would have been 2018 through 2022, not 2019 through 2023, as proposed by Caldaia. In short, because Sanford had not raised these defenses at the Area Office, Sanford could not raise them at OHA for the first time on appeal.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Ignorance is not a defense. In a conversation I had with Barry Giles, a true green building pioneer, in 2018, he said, “to truly regard sustainable buildings in a holistic manner, it’s our obligation to start with the supply chain serving the construction industry.”. It is no longer acceptable to look the other way.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Grand Canyon State has seen its share of grand investments in 2018 with two companies that are revolutionizing their industries. Read: Arizona: Billion Dollar Boom at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 19, 2019

states in GDP growth in 2018. With a booming economy fueled by a business-friendly climate and a thriving startup ecosystem, Arizona was fourth among U.S. Read: Arizona: Job Growth Is Surging In The Grand Canyon State at BusinessFacilities.com.

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NH Construction Law

JANUARY 30, 2022

”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed. Withholding consent to a partial settlement solely to keep the insurer on the hook for defense costs might well be deemed unreasonable. City of Keene , 898 F.2d 2d 265, 269 (1st Cir. But settling them is.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 17, 2019

In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits. To nurture a resilient human being, or a resilient city, is to build in an expectation of adversity, a capacity for inevitable vulnerability. in large measure.

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Business Facilities

MARCH 27, 2018

trillion, the tech sector is one of the largest components of the nation's economy, according to Cyberstates™ 2018. Technology Sector Added Nearly 200,000 Jobs In 2017 at BusinessFacilities.com.

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The Korte Company

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s the case with the new Navy Gateway Inns & Suites (NGIS) completed in late 2018 at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. This 200-room Design-Build project was the first of its kind conforming to new Department of Defense criteria. We’re immensely proud of the work we’ve completed for the Department of Defense.

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Job Order Contracting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As a result, more than 40 years after the introduction of area cost factors (ACFs), the Department of Defense (and the Federal Government in general) is no closer to its goals of having construction cost estimates match actual construction costs, or properly adjusting for regional (location based) and/or time-based cost variances.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Moreover, the new Standard will have direct application with the enactment of the Commonwealth of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act , which was introduced to the Australian Parliament at the end of June, and follows enactment of the New South Wales Government’s Modern Slavery Act 2018. These modern enactments by government are only a small step.

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Constructlaw

AUGUST 3, 2023

17] The court explained that its prior precedent erroneously “equated the defenses to recognition and enforcement with the grounds for vacatur” [18] and that this was “plainly and palpably wrong.” [19] 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13] FeeDx Holdings, Inc. , 4th 1232, 1240 (9th Cir.

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Construction Specifier

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Chapter 23 of the 2018 International Building Code and NFPA 703, Standard for Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood and Fire- Retardant Coatings for Building Materials contain detailed lists of requirements for FRTW that may not be clearly or easily understood by those who are unfamiliar with FRTW. IBC 2018 Ed. NFPA 5000 2018 Ed.

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Business Facilities

JULY 24, 2019

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An Louisiana, no. million over the next five years. territories.

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Business Facilities

DECEMBER 5, 2017

GTS, which provides advanced engineering solutions for defense, homeland security, and related U.S. Construction will begin in the first quarter of 2018 and the facility will be operational in 2019. Terry McAuliffe announces Global Technical Systems’ $54.7 Photo: Terry McAuliffe via Twitter).

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Manufacturing will be done at Cal-Comp USA’s Logansport plant, which has clean-room manufacturing for a diverse set of industries, from aerospace and defense to medical devices. Lytx will commence validation manufacturing of its event recorders in October to fine-tune processes, and full production will be ramped by March 2018.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 24, 2023

We previously reported in 2018 on these unreliable data and made 15 SMS is a tool for asset life-cycle management that produces multi-year condition trends and investment requirements. released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based

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Business Facilities

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Toyota Mississippi said that construction of the 15,000-square-foot visitor and interactive training center would begin in late 2018 with a targeted completion date in mid-2019. The new manufacturing operations will begin in 2018. The company is on track to produce its 1 millionth vehicle in late 2017.

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NH Construction Law

AUGUST 11, 2019

The ICC updates its proposed codes every three years (there is already a 2018 version published), and New Hampshire is finally catching up to other New England states. I suspect that many towns will favor the Nashua approach over the Chester approach for that reason. But don’t count on it.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In the wake of 2012’s unparalleled extreme weather events, a green infrastructure financing guide was released by the NatLab consortium—a collaboration between the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Nature Conservancy, and sustainable asset management firm EKO Asset Management Partners. Seattle: $24-30 million from 2012-2018.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 21, 2022

2018, Correlation between cost growth and procurement methods on USACE construction projects. 2018, Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates, Defense Infrastructure, GAO-18-101 The Chapter 5 paper presents a statistical analysis on the performance of twelve existing. References.

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Pro Builder

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. “We

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NH Construction Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

If the owner sues the contractor for breach of contract and the contractor prevails, the contractor’s defense costs should be recoverable as damages in an action by the contractor against the design professional. 569 (2018), but decided not to dig in. attorney fees. thereby suffered or incurred in the earlier action.”

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The Korte Company

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Scheduled for completion in the fall of 2018, Gateway Inn & Suites will serve as Naval Station Newport’s flagship lodging facility. As with almost every Department of Defense project we complete, green construction methods were applied. Gateway Inn & Suites – Newport, Rhode Island. The Four Seasons at Vail – Vail, Colorado.

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Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 28, 2017

While experts aren’t saying that two-factor authentication is dead, methods to validate callers should always to be evaluated to strengthen defenses against more sophisticated hackers and the evolving technologies they use to attack call centers and other customer environments. As we move into 2018, we thank you for visiting the TRUSTID blog.

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Pro Builder

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In 2019, for example, the average profitability among the builders surveyed rose to 9.59% of revenue, up from 8.71% in 2018—the best performance since 2006, before the crash (see chart 1). CHART 5: Except for a bump in 2018, fewer builders have a formal worker safety program, though still nearly two-thirds of them do.

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