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Maryland Schools will No Longer be LEED Certified

Green Building Law Update

This is a major change in public policy for the Old Line State that has required by law that all new state funding building be third party certified as green for more than a decade, resulting in 161 LEED certified pre K through 12 public schools. But no longer.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Is it a a fact that Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector. While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Lean Construction Reading Primer.

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Litigation Over First Ever LEED Platinum Building Tarnishes Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Despite that the unpublished opinion is not binding precedent, it will have a chilling effect on green building and in particular on the selection of new or untried materials and products that are the keystone of many sustainable projects. SmithGroup designed the building and Clark Construction oversaw its construction.

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

The following are her thoughts about green buildings and the rating systems that score them. Since 2002, I have contended that truly sustainable buildings would create net public benefits to over-compensate for their (currently) unavoidable material flows and embodied impacts.

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IgCC will now be Powered by ASHRAE 189.1

Green Building Law Update

Last Friday, the International Code Council and ASHRAE announced they signed an “agreement that the new version of the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), scheduled to be released in 2018, will be powered by” ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings. and the LEED green building program.”

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IgCC will now be Powered by ASHRAE 189.1

Green Building Law Update

Last Friday, the International Code Council and ASHRAE announced they signed an “agreement that the new version of the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), scheduled to be released in 2018, will be powered by” ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings. Standard 189.1

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Tokyo’s Green Building Program has reduced power consumption by 20%

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Tokyo city officials calculate that its Green Building Program reduced energy consumption by 20% since its inception, a statistic they identify as the reason the power stayed on during the 2011 earthquake. The measure to construct low-emission, energy-efficient buildings was launched in 2002. read more.

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