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EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

Green Building Law Update

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. This draft identifies strategic objectives and actions needed to create a stronger, more resilient U.S. solid waste recycling system.

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The Most Green Building Friendly Zoning Code in the Nation - Baltimore?

Green Building Law Update

Baltimore City is poised to adopt a new zoning code that is among the most ''green building friendly'' land use ordinances in the country. A green building friendly zoning ordinance is significant when so many local codes including land use ordinances across the country stand in the way of sustainability efforts.

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You Need a Green Building Consultant (Who Speaks for the Trees)

Green Building Law Update

My go to move is to recommend Lorax Partnerships based in Baltimore who are among the best of green building consultants we work with. Okay, the single best way to mitigate risk in a green building project are properly drafted contract documents.).

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GBCI Changed its Name and You Need to Change Your Documents

Green Building Law Update

And that same month USGBC announced that it had acquired the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), an organization committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real estate portfolios around the globe. “a structure that has achieved, as certified by Green Business Certification Inc.,

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The drafting process was widely criticized resulting in a document that has never been enacted anywhere, and likely should not ever be adopted as code. On the very first page of the site sustainability provisions, sec 501.3.1.2 Washington DC, Baltimore City, Montgomery County, Maryland, etc.) The 2018 IgCC applies to “1.

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