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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. Task Group, after more than a year of work, has balloted a draft revised standard and results are expected as early as next week. The ASTM E50.02 of this report.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Green Building Law Update

From snow removal to legal services and office cleaning to landscaping with literally hundreds of business sectors in between, business not traditionally thought of as being in the construction field or the environmental industrial complex, are profiting by being green and marketing their contribution to LEED credits.

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#130:  Secured Lenders' Rights to Construction Contract Payments

NH Construction Law

Can the recipient of the notice – in legal parlance, an “account debtor” – ignore the lender’s demand and continue to pay his contractor or subcontractor? A draft Bill is in my desk draw, if anyone at the State House cares to call me.) Not unless he is prepared to pay twice! Reading Cooperative Bank v.

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Green Building (Including LEED-Centric) Laws Spread Over Seas

Green Building Law Update

and when 2013 ends the international use of LEED will have grown tremendously. Appreciate that the opinion sought the Department of Justice’s advice on whether the code would be legally binding or “simply provide for guidelines to professionals concerned on the proper performance of their works.”

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Arbitration is Why There is So Little Litigation in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Legal scholars can have at it. And there is no question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. Italian Colors Restaurant decided in 2013, “the overarching principle that arbitration is a matter of contract. The Supreme Court, in American Express v.

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No April Fools' Joke: Supreme Court Takes Appeal in Construction Case

Best Practices Construction Law

granted, 12-929, 2013 WL 1285318 (Apr. When drafting a forum selection clause, you should think about all the where questions: (a) where the parties are located; (b) where the witnesses reside; (c) where the contract negotiations took place; and (d) where the project is located. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. Marine Const. 2012) cert.

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The Easy Way I Sent Personalized Holiday Emails

Help Everybody Everyday

People who I haven’t seen or talked to in 2013 (usually people in far off states). I replaced it with our firm’s confidentiality language/legal mumbo jumbo. ” I had accidentally sent an earlier draft of my template. That draft email template also mentioned the person’s boss. Teaming partners.