Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

It is surprising to many in the environmental industrial complex that there has been relatively little litigation arising out of green building. There have been only a very modest number of cases commenced in courts across the country involving construction of green buildings. Even the Green Business Certification Inc.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 7, 2018

2018 will be a watershed year in the course of green building standards, codes and rating systems. IgCC, ICC 700, Green Globes and. Earlier versions of these green building standards, codes and rating systems were largely written in silos by partisans. will be published in that same document as an alternative compliance path.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 3, 2015

GBCI, formerly known as the Green Building Certification Institute, has changed its name to Green Business Certification Inc. Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating System. “a structure that has achieved, as certified by Green Business Certification Inc.,

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

There is little question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. With over a million contract documents licensed on an annual basis, the AIA’s form construction documents are likely the most widely used contract documents in the industry.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise. Others collect building data.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2020

Howard County has since 2008 been one of a limited number of jurisdictions across the country with a mandatory LEED green building law for private buildings. So yes, it is an unintended consequence of LEED green building that creates the solution to this environmental issue that it arguably contributed to.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 29, 2020

and even the green building movement, are driven principally by energy efficiency not preventing the spread of viruses. The manuscript draft discussing airborne transmission concludes that evidence is emerging indicating that COVID-19 is transmitted via airborne particles. until there is a vaccine).

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A study on the efficacy of RGGI, characterized laws that mandate green building, like LEED or Green Globes, as an example of a pseudo pollution tax on embodied carbon that come with a high economic cost. The draft Ordinance is essential reading for anyone interested in environmental matters in our current climate. Comment here.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 13, 2017

What is described here is much more than simply good drafting of consultant contacts (e.g., Be aware, however, only where the document or communication is primarily concerned with legal assistance does it come within the attorney-client privilege. And fourth, the client should not have knowledge of certain environmental facts.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The Green Business Certification Inc.’s Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0 addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. The launch of RELi 2.0

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Level 0 : Level 0 entails basically no collaboration, and only 2D CAD drafting is used. Level 1 : Level 1 BIM is a combination of 3D CAD and 2D for drafting. Data and documents are shared via a common data environment. Each stakeholder or contractor maintains their own data and documents. BIM Execution Plan.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 but more than a year later, it has not been adopted anywhere. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 14, 2020

Green Building Council has now added two additional Pilot Credits responding to the novel coronavirus. Green Building Council has announced that LEED will play a role in confronting risk in the coronavirus pandemic era. You may reasonably infer that I have posted an update (. You may reasonably infer that I have posted an update (.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 by the U.S. Green Building Council , International Code Council , ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society. Make no mistake, the 203 page document unveiled by the coterie of trade group authors and available from the ICC for sale to the public (.

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Green Building Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2012

The Department of Energy and several interesting partners (both BOMA and NRDC, for example) have launched a website consolidating green lease resources. A number of public agency versions of leases, as well as some guidance documents are included. It is available here. My feeling on this topic has always been that it is illusory.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade. Substantively the case suggests there is no more liability arising from green building versus other construction, but that the liability is different.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade. to design the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, CBF’s headquarters, on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Construction Law Monitor

OCTOBER 26, 2010

AIA (American Institute of Architects ) form documents have dominated the construction industry for many years. Many experts believe that the AIA standard form contracts are drafted to protect the Architect. The contract documents should be drafted to protect this individual. More on this form at Christopher Hill’s blog.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

producer to for the first time share all documentation related to PFOA. Troubling to some is that green building programs, including LEED’s Materials & Resources credits do not track or even take into account PFOA. Significantly, concentrations of PFOA in the U.S. has been cut dramatically. Some suggest the U.S. In the U.S.

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Stok

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

According to the Cover Text , a document produced by the COP Egyptian Presidency which summarizes negotiation outcomes, the parties agreed to formalize Loss and Damage and begin to draft provisions which route funds from developed countries to developing nations.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 25, 2017

Standardize programs and documents across all counties in the State. Draft new and improved attorney prepared loan documents that work to ‘sell’ PACE. Lower cost of a PACE loan by not collecting recordation tax on a PACE lien notice recorded among the land records. Eliminate the requirement for a pre-improvement Energy Audit.

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Construction Law Monitor

MARCH 22, 2012

Landlord / Tenant issues happen often because there are natural opposing positions created by the document and the occupancy. There are residential, commercial, industrial, green, month-to-month, oral, and a host of others. Just as in any legal contract, the devil is in the details.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Green Building. Beane didn’t achieve success by drafting players based on his emotional judgments or media-based hype. document management. Green Building. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. General Management. Software & Technology. Accounting & Finance. foundation.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 30, 2011

Green Building. Many of the contractors immediately shot down the concept with the age old line of questioning that pertains to the architects’ inability to draft an affordably reproduced plan and a perceived desire to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright on a modest budget. document management. Green Building. STRATEGY |.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating system is widely accepted and while LEED certification certainly has its advantages, our advice is that a very good response can be to enact company practices complying with this single LEED credit. The credit language is here.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 6, 2013

On the left of this spectrum, you have those Design-Build projects that use bridging documents, lowest bidder selection, and a team that doesn’t work well together. The biggest problem with this model is that when you have an architect prepare bridging documents, you’ve just made all the big decisions without the input of the building team.

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Construction Business Owner

JANUARY 4, 2011

Green Building. In that relatively short time frame I am able to draft an email from 30,000 feet and send it into the ether to any number of project team members. document management. Green Building. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |. INSURANCE |. EQUIPMENT |. General Management. foundation.

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Construction Dive

AUGUST 14, 2009

They’d click the green (+) icon to add another row. To update any templates used in drafts, edit the draft and reapply the updated custom template. The draft will then reflect any changes you’ve made to the custom template–and keep whatever content you’ve added to the draft.

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Revit Beginners

JANUARY 11, 2010

I've fortunately been busy lately working on some residential projects but do have a couple of new documents in the works for posting. Green Revit. Marathon Drafting. HOK Green BIM. Labels: Bloggers , News. 1 comment: revitflow. Thanks for the referral to my "revitflow" blog! Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Contractor Magazine

JULY 27, 2012

Green Geothermal. Green Mechanical Awards. IAPMO and ASSE are now working together to draft a legally binding document for the transition. IAPMO joins green conference. Plumbing Contractor. Residential Plumbing. Wastewater. Piping Fire Sprinklers. Pipefitting. Piping Contractor. Hydronics Hydronics Systems.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 24, 2022

We are drafting comments to the SEC on behalf of clients to the proposed, “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” rule. Comments are due before May 20. Leading by example, what follows is an edited version of the comment we personally offered the SEC. accountants cannot provide those certifications).

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Anders Hagvall Head of Digital Construction & Engineering, H2 Green Steel Stockholm, Sweden Anders' work has helped H2 Green Steel advance its mission to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries. Her work ethic, remarkable adaptability, and outstanding leadership skills are at the core of her leadership.

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Revit Beginners

AUGUST 19, 2009

The model is not clean enough to develop construction documents so we have passed along that task to another architect. Green Revit. Marathon Drafting. HOK Green BIM. David Duarte. at 3:06 PM. Labels: News , Phases , Practice. 1 comment: antman. Thank you for sharing this. Beyond the Silos. BIM & BEAM. BIM Videos.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 7, 2021

The project proposes sustainable solutions for Detroit’s 48204 ZIP code • Led the initiative to transition from CAD to BIM construction documentation and introduced several technical innovations to streamline operations • Created a custom BIM content library with hundreds of host components and subcomponents. Andrew Gotlieb, 34. Cleveland.

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The Korte Company

AUGUST 12, 2020

The work was labor-intensive at the time—everything was hand-drawn on drafting boards—and everyone still wore white shirts and ties. To make the building more interesting, Dennis’s design varied roof heights and added angled red and green graphics (Italian colors to match the brand) to the design. But I fell in love with it.” .

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

Load Family and youll notice icons on the left for Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, Imperial Library, Imperial Detail Library, and Training Files. Green Revit. Marathon Drafting. HOK Green BIM. Friday, September 22, 2006. Loading Libraries. Load from Library. Beyond the Silos. BIM & BEAM. BIM Videos.

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Revit Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2010

Once the principals saw the data loss and loss of efficiency from such workarounds they got over the look of the documents. especially as documents became a secondary deliverable to the coordinated BIM. Green Revit. Marathon Drafting. HOK Green BIM. Great work around. David Duarte. Beyond the Silos. BIM & BEAM.

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