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Estimating the Cost of a Commercial Building Project

Chianelli Estimating

Making your next commercial building project successful starts with anticipating and estimating costs. In the currently volatile real estate and construction markets, the difference between an accurate estimation and one that fails to incorporate all potential variables is enormous. HVAC and Electric. Types of Building Class.

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6 Green Building Materials and How They are Used

Chianelli Estimating

Regulatory mandates and improved affordability of green, sustainable and eco-friendly materials, leading to them to be used more in construction. Green materials in construction are often attractive to tenants and investors because they can lower the cost of building maintenance while reducing carbon footprints. Polyiso Insulation.

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Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

Green Building Law Update

In 2015, when vaping is out and Marley Natural Weed is in, the largely unrecognized and surging use of electricity associated with marijuana must be considered. Indoor marijuana growing operations accounted for over 1% of all electric consumption in the U.S.,

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Greensburg, Kansas Rebuilds Green After Tornado

Natural Building

Greensburg, a farming community in southwestern Kansas with a population of 900 rebuilt “green” after a tornado barreled through at more than 200 miles per hour and nearly wiped it off the map in 2007. She said, ‘It sounds like you’re going to build it green,’” Hewitt recalled. Not everything has been easy, residents say. “So

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Solar Panels Mandated for Muscle Beach and.

Green Building Law Update

This coming Wednesday the City of Santa Monica will begin mandating the installation of a solar electric photovoltaic system on all new building. All new low-rise residential dwellings are required to install a solar electric photovoltaic system with the minimum total wattage 2.0 times the square footage of the building footprint.

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Maryland Resets it Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law

Green Building Law Update

To accomplish this the bill advances everything from “food residuals” and organic materials diversion, a new environmental justice litmus test, a solar panel “recovery, reuse, and recycling working group,” an electric school bus mandate, recognizes “nuclear power” as a carbon free energy source, and much, much more. All of which is true, but.

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Revoking the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Incidental Take Rule, Once Again

Green Building Law Update

In 2013, during the prosecution of Duke Energy for bird deaths by wind turbine, the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that “wind turbines kill between 140,000 and 500,000 birds a year in accidental collisions.”. That has been the letter of the law for the past century.”. Which takes the saga to last week and this newly proposed rule.