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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: The Enertia.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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You Need a Green Building Consultant (Who Speaks for the Trees)

Green Building Law Update

Those responses are not inconsistent with and, in fact, should be considered concomitantly with the conclusion, having worked on LEED projects since 2001, that the second best way to mitigate risk and avoid liability in sustainable building is a green building consultant working for the owner.

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Ignoring water issues can harm the economy - Contractor Magazine

Contractor Magazine

EPA may release a draft specification this fall, Tanner said, and, since spray valves use heated water, the listed valves will most likely carry both an Energy Star and WaterSense label. Posted 2 weeks ago in Sustainably Speaking. has developed a force test and a spray force gauge for lab tests. Blogs and Opinions. by Robert Mader.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

And there is some form of privacy law in at least 48 states (but not Alabama and South Dakota), including by way of example the California’s groundbreaking 2003 Data Security Breach Reporting Law , but most of those are reactive, that is most laws in the U.S. establish requirements for a business after a data breach.

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Construction Marketing Secret: Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator of Construction

Construction Marketing

Although decisions to build nonresidential structures are made by hundreds of thousands of private businesses, nonprofit institutions, and government agencies, the first comprehensive indication of planned development typically shows up on an architect’s drafting board. 2 See, for example, The American Institute of Architects, 2003.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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These grants will be available statewide in order to support the commercialization of new technologies leading to the creation of high-paying, sustainable jobs in the commonwealth. With 32 ports statewide, Louisiana offers six deep-draft ports capable of transferring large quantities of cargo, is one of only two U.S.

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2018 will be a Year for New Green Building Standards, Codes and Rating Systems

Green Building Law Update

I am optimistic that a global conversation, although centered in the United States, has begun where people are discovering and inventing new ways to build sustainably. Following ICC’s drafting of the administrative procedures for the technical content, the document that will be the 2018 – IgCC will be published in June. and abroad.

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