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California is a Model for PACE Loan Reform

Green Building Law Update

California’s statutory changes to its existing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program, that became effective January 1, 2017, may be a model for residential PACE programs across the nation. The first residential PACE program started in Berkeley, California in 2007.

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GreenPoint Rated goes national: what multifamily developers need to know

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GPR began in California and is the state’s leading residential green building rating system with over 73,500 rated homes. Through the process of getting GPR certified, GPR projects in California also fulfill CALGreen compliance. GreenPoint Rated (GPR) is a third-party rating system for healthy, energy-, and resource-efficient homes.

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Senate Finance Passes Tax Extensions | ENR: Engineering News.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. ENR California. Senate Finance Passes Tax Extensions. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Banking & Credit Crisis. Project Delivery. Ethics & Corruption. Associations.

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California Photovoltaic Test Lab Dives Into Technologies With Real.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. ENR California. California Photovoltaic Test Lab Dives Into Technologies With Real World Experiments. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Banking & Credit Crisis.

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Officials Outline 'Preferred' Path Forward on California's Bay Delta.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. ENR California. Officials Outline Preferred Path Forward on Californias Bay Delta. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar supports $14-billion proposal to transfer water from northern California to the Central Valley, but several lawmakers in the region to be tapped blasted the plan. Power & Industrial.

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DOT Lets States Shift $473M Unspent on Earmarks to Other Projects.

ENR Construction

Sustainability. ENR California. million, followed by California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Banking & Credit Crisis. Project Delivery. ENR Midwest.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Papercrete.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.