Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft National Recycling Strategy and is seeking public comment through December 4, 2020, with the goal of finalizing it in early 2021. Baltimore City has not collected recycling since August), anecdotal evidence suggests recycling numbers have decreased sharply in 2020.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 8, 2022

In the fall of 2020 a group of friends got together to bring new life to The Last Straw. This a tremendously valuable resource for all information related to natural building and sustainable architecture! The post The Last Straw appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Safety Services Company

MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, let’s break down the major causes of ladder-related injuries, the safety essentials for contractors, and how to ensure safety and compliance for your workers at all times! In 2020 alone, construction sites accounted for over 5,000 of these reports. Why is this the case, and what should contractors look for?

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Like a number of other state and local governments, Baltimore City filed this action against energy companies in Maryland state court, seeking to recover damages under state law for harms that it claims it has sustained and will sustain due to global climate change. It should be fun to watch BP P.L.C.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

A final rule the SEC adopted on August 26, 2020 and effective 30 days after publication in the Federal Register may be more significant for what is not in the rule. Just last Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed, “Sustainable Investing is a Self-Defeating Strategy.”.

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GCP Applied Technologies

MAY 4, 2020

Mon, 05/04/2020 - 18:03. May 04, 2020. Forward-thinking producers are realizing tremendous improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability. Sustainability. How-to-Reduce-the-Cost-of-Concrete-Production-blog-article-505x253. How to Reduce the Cost of Concrete Production. Phillip.fry@gc….

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Laura Sofía García Canto began collaborating with Plenitud Puerto Rico in August 2020 on bioconstruction-related research projects while completing her civil engineering degree at the University of PR. During her time in school, she collaborated with community-based projects and organizations working for empowerment and sustainability.

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Safety Services Company

MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, let’s break down the major causes of ladder-related injuries, the safety essentials for contractors, and how to ensure safety and compliance for your workers at all times! In 2020 alone, construction sites accounted for over 5,000 of these reports. Why is this the case, and what should contractors look for?

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Natural Building

JULY 6, 2021

Moab Utah’s affordable housing nonprofit Community Rebuilds has been combining sustainable building practices, education, and affordable housing since its founding by now-mayor Emily Niehaus in 2010. Other blog posts about Community Rebuilds: [link]. In spite of those challenges, the organization continues to pursue its work.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 12, 2021

home for more than three months in 2020. The research was published in the Journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. The post The Passive Solar Potential of Skylights appeared first on Natural Building Blog. This is enough to power the average U.S. You can read the original article at www.opb.org.

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Stok

APRIL 17, 2023

This blog post was co-authored by Stok’s Director of Carbon Services Colette Crouse and students in her Masters of the Environment Carbon Accounting & Management course at the University of Colorado, Boulder: Rebecca Billingsley, Andrea Green, and Kenny Prior (see bios below).

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BD+C

MAY 18, 2023

With another year out from 2020 under our belts, and mask mandates no longer widely enforced at most sports venues, this probably comes as no surprise. These important nuances to the data will be explored in a future installment of this blog series. Some items that are new to the survey this year are worth mentioning.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 1, 2020

This blog will continue in 2020 providing strategic intelligence on environmental law, including critical insights into sustainability and green building for the business community, not just for lawyers. you can click on the title to link to the post): 179D Tax Deduction Brought Back to Life thru 2020. .”

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Trish Donnally MFPRO+ Blog Higher Education University Buildings Multifamily Housing Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Student Housing Designers Architects Projects Sustainable Development To say the United States is facing an affordable housing crisis is a major understatement.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Notable about this case is the contractor’s invocation of a July 2, 2020 Department of Defense (DoD) memorandum concerning the financial consequences on contractors with firm-fixed-price contracts lacking an economic price adjustment clause during “historic and unprecedented challenges” in the wake of the pandemic’s onset.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 23, 2014

Resurgent cities gearing up for events in 2020 with renewed vigor: Tokyo (19) – 2020 Summer Olympics and Dubai (3) – Expo 2020. New England Washington Blog-Jan-2014 City Momentum Index Davos Lones Lang LaSalle' Growth hotspots beyond the BRICs driven by urban consumerism: Jakarta (12) and Lima (20). Far West U.S. -

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Construction Law

APRIL 3, 2023

There have been negligible advances in improving the energy efficiency of UK homes, the installation of low carbon heating solutions or securing a sustainable balance of water supply and demand.’ But the NAO report found the new plan was now £400 million more expensive than the original.

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Natural Building

JANUARY 22, 2022

On 50 scenic acres in Carson, New Mexico, sits the Veterans Off-Grid (VOG) property — a nonprofit organization founded by Ryan Timmermans, whose mission is to restore a sense of purpose, community, sustainability, and peace to veterans in need. The post Veterans Off Grid in New Mexico appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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Construction Law

APRIL 1, 2022

Some would say government has an obligation to focus on and drive behaviours that contribute to the government’s own ‘levelling up’ and sustainability ambitions. The Playbook was published in late 2020 and is now being ‘refreshed’. Content is to be revised and updated.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 3, 2022

Sustainability. The current lumber shortage is front and center, and the sustainability concern is obvious and will make sourcing an even greater challenge. As a result, any additional sustainability pressure on petroleum creates even greater need for eliminating waste from those products. Availability of investment capital.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 27, 2021

As I expressed in that blog post some weeks ago, today there is simply no regulatory guidance for public companies or other businesses in the United States. Alongside enhanced definitions, the EU is in the process of adopting standardized processes through its Non-Financial Reporting Directive and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 16, 2016

commercial real estate assets and residential purchases excluding new development projects, however, could still total at least $218 billion, cumulatively, from 2016 through 2020. Beyond 2020, Chinese investment in U.S. Chinese direct investment across existing U.S.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 20, 2016

The Green Energy Facility houses an anaerobic digester, which uses innovative technology to turn organic material into sustainable power. ” In addition to the Stop & Shop Green Energy Facility, the company is an industry and community leader in responsible and sustainable retailing. . million trees yearly.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 23, 2016

“I look forward to working with local leaders and community members to realize the vision of a first-of-its-kind transportation service that increases access to jobs, links neighborhoods, and improves real-time information in a sustainable, safe way.”.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 7, 2014

This at a time when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been estimated at 400 parts per million, long specified as the tipping point for self-sustaining climate change. 1 economy until 2020? This week, the U.S. Remember when the CIA told our leaders in the late 1980s that the Soviet Union was stronger than ever?

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Construction Specifier

JANUARY 31, 2022

Evidence of this trend in focus for healthier environments is highlighted by one of the top architectural firms: “Now more than ever, public spaces are poised to become the grand lobbies and public waiting rooms of neighborhoods and cities,” says Gensler associate Michael Wagner on the company’s blog. “At

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have for years advised public companies about environmental matters and sustainability including navigating the complexity of ESG disclosures while recognizing the business’ purpose of generating value for shareholders, in the SEC decision making landscape.

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Business Facilities

JULY 11, 2014

The report finds that expanding the program to 600 megawatts will help Los Angeles achieve a state mandate to generate a third of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. Far West Blog-June-2014 CLEAN LA Solar feed-in-tariff FIT LADWP los angeles Solar Energy'

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 11, 2016

The company has since increased their sustainability targets, with goals of lowering emissions to 20 percent below 2012 levels and improving energy efficiency 10 percent by 2020. From 2005 to 2013, Bayer reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2021

Nancy Hudes and I will be publishing a new blog beginning Monday, August 9 at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). Nasdaq said in a study conducted in 2020 that more than 75% of its listed companies would not have met these requirements. Last Friday the U.

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Pro Builder

JUNE 7, 2022

From July 2019 through July 2020, Rise , a website for consumers and professionals that provides information about sustainable building practices and sells sustainable products, tapped into internet and social media conversations among consumers about off-site home construction. Census Bureau. Off-Site Construction.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As we reflect on the last year, it’s worth a look back at some of Autodesk’s most notable blog posts from 2021. You’ll discover top industry stats, meet AEC’s most innovative leaders, learn about data and cost management tech, and discover innovations in sustainable construction. Reusing Our Way to a More Sustainable Future.

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Federal Construction Contracting Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

If OFCCP determines it will disclose the contractor’s information despite the objections, OFCCP will notify contractors, in writing, of the basis for not sustaining the objections, the description of the information that will be disclosed, and a specified disclosure date that is a reasonable time subsequent to the notice.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog. This blog post highlights the legal risk associated with ESG disclosures and proffers that through green building practices, like the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 9, 2022

Businesses do not need to engage in the current political fights over what are green energy, noting that the European Union just announced on New Year’s Eve the Brussels “green taxonomy” list of what is sustainable energy including natural gas and nuclear, to the displeasure of some. electricity generation in 2020.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This created a sustained class of new employees passing through all preconstruction phases, enabling everyone to experience preconstruction firsthand. . In New York, she stepped up and managed minority business outreach, community relations, and sustainability and LEED credential efforts. . New York, NY.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MARCH 28, 2019

Here’s a look at just a few of the most interesting stories in March: Some key infrastructure projects at improving roadways and bridges could be at risk in 2020. trillion fiscal year 2020 budget proposal featured some significant cutbacks in federal construction spending. President Trump’s $4.7

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