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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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Low Carbon Concrete for the First Time Required by Law

Green Building Law Update

The Marin County, California Low Carbon Concrete Code was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specification to the Marin County Building Code.

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South Miami Poised to Mandate Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

The proposed requirement is a first anywhere except in California where there are only a very few locales with a similar mandate. The ordinance is modeled after similar laws enacted in the California municipalities of Lancaster, Sebastopol, and Santa Monica, and the City of San Francisco. The ordinance is here.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

Green Building Law Update

But a 2008 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that less than 27% of residential rooftops are suitable for hosting an on site photovoltaic system, after taking into consideration structural, shading, and ownership issues. Advances in solar technology have made photovoltaics a much sought after energy alternative.

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LEED Prerequisite Now Prohibits Smoking Cannabis

Green Building Law Update

Additionally a weather strip is required of all exterior doors and operable windows in the residential units “to minimize leakage from outdoors.” But the dramatic impact is that the prerequisite additionally requires one of two alternative means of compliance, the first of which simply prohibits smoking inside the entire building.

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LEED Outstanding Developer of the Year (2020)

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Green Building Council (USGBC) has named AMLI Residential , in Chicago, Outstanding Developer in the USGBC 2020 LEED Homes Awards , as well as naming the firm a 2020 LEED Homes Power Builder. . All photos: AMLI Residential). . Exterior view of AMLI Residential's Buckhead apartment complex in Atlanta. . .

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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California is the exception, developing its own building energy code—commonly referred to simply as “Title-24”—that leads the nation in establishing a higher baseline for building energy performance. In this case, an energy model is used to document the savings of the aggregated energy performance of the design over the code baseline.