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How to Make Sure Your Construction Security Guards Are Doing Their Job

Lets Build

A quality construction security guard is always alert and always ready to respond to identified risks. You like to think that your security guard provides the level of service needed to protect your materials and keep your construction site secure, but how can you know? When Visiting, Converse With Your Security Guard.

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SEC Assessment of Climate Change Risks Still Mandated

Green Building Law Update

While I was on the Baltoro glacier making my way down from K2 in Pakistan earlier this month the Securities and Exchange Commission informed Exxon Mobil Corp. that it closed its investigation into whether the company had misled investors about the risks that climate change posed to its business.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable. Even better, Calleri says, residents don’t need a car to traverse the city or get to work.

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GRESB Purchased from GBCI in advance of ESG Breakout

Green Building Law Update

Securities and Exchange Commission very public scrutiny of ESG claims as not meeting a threshold of having a material effect, but rather as being “. GRESB does have some Canadian investor participation) including with the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule greatly limiting the use of ESG information by retirement plan fiduciaries, and the U.S.

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ESG Disclosure Simplification Act Passes Committee But Will Fail

Green Building Law Update

Although there is little if any chance that the bill will become law given the current politics in Washington, DC, the bill’s passage in the House Committee highlights that issues of ESG disclosures continuing to be pressing. In the realm of securities disclosures it is often not enough to be correct.

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20,000th LEED Project Is Certified

Green Building Law Update

And it secured 2 points on credit MRc4 for 10% recycled content on building materials. Not only is it within the United States, a big deal with the internationalization of LEED, but Tennessee is not Washington DC, with the most LEED projects per capita and it might not be the location one would guess for a LEED project.

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IAPMO CEO Testifies Before U.S. Senate on Securing Nation's.

Contractor Magazine

Senate on Securing Nation’s Water Future. Senate on Securing Nation’s Water Future. WASHINGTON, DC – IAPMO Group CEO GP Russ Chaney was invited to testify before a key U.S. Advertisement. ); //. Home > Plumbing > Commercial Plumbing > IAPMO CEO Testifies Before U.S. IAPMO CEO Testifies Before U.S. Comments 0.