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California is a Model for PACE Loan Reform

Green Building Law Update

California’s statutory changes to its existing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program, that became effective January 1, 2017, may be a model for residential PACE programs across the nation. The first residential PACE program started in Berkeley, California in 2007. 2693 and Assembly Bill No.

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Is the 2018 IgCC Doomed to Fail?

Green Building Law Update

Last week the ICC and ASHRAE issued joint news releases on the status of the “unified green building code that could become the foundation for LEED certification” that will be published as the 2018 version of the International Green Construction Code. But on December 19, 2007, President George W. And that ASHRAE 189.1

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Development of a conceptual model of construction partnering. Lean Construction: arenas of enactment, models of diffusion and the meaning of ‘leanness’. Sutter Health: Developing a contracting model to support lean project delivery Lean Construction Journal 2(1), 105-112. References: Abdelhamid, T. NY: Aspen Publishers.

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

Every score model we reviewed saw a drop in ENERGY STAR score except hotels. Note that EIA was unable to publish the 2007 CBECS and therefore, many of today’s scores rely on much older CBECS data, hence the dramatic drop now.). Applications received after August 26 will be evaluated using the updated score models.

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USGBC Making Significant Change to LEED 2009

Green Building Law Update

Green Building Council has just announced that all new projects registering for LEED 2009 beginning on April 8, 2016 will need to satisfy increased minimum energy performance thresholds. 2007 (with errata but without addenda 25) using a computer simulation model for the whole building project.

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Will Proposed Change to LEED 2009 Kill the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs?

Green Building Law Update

Green Building Council is soliciting comments on its proposal to change the prerequisites of the current LEED 2009 rating system increasing the minimum energy performance thresholds. 2007 (with errata but without addenda 25) using a computer simulation model for the whole building project.

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Building A Better Tomorrow: The Future Of UK Construction

Constructonomics

The national industry had a hugely positive global reputation before the economic downturn in 2007, and since the success of the 2012 London Olympics government and international confidence has once again been restored in British construction, helping to build a strong foundation for the future.