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ASHRAE 189.1 - 2014 Green Building Standard Is Now Available

Green Building Law Update

Last week the 2014 version of the ASHRAE 189.1 2014, Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings , addresses site sustainability; water-use efficiency; energy ef­ficiency; indoor environmental quality; and the building’s impact on the atmosphere, materials and resources.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Defense (DOD), and National 19 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). General Services Administration (GSA), US Department of Defense (DOD), and National 35 Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). US Army Sustainment Command. 3 US Department of Defense.

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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 It acknowledges from the outset that things will go wrong. This is the drama of being alive. It’s a shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 Susan Dorn, the General Counsel of USGBC and GBCI could not be more emphatic, RELi 2.0 Resilience is becoming widely accepted. not RELi’s 500 year storm).

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 Susan Dorn, the General Counsel of USGBC and GBCI could not be more emphatic, RELi 2.0 Resilience is becoming widely accepted. not RELi’s 500 year storm).

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

Because we found the components’ facility condition data were unreliable due to missing and inaccurate entries, as noted above, we were unable to analyze the relationship between facility sustainment funding and facility condition. released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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From the July/August 2014 issue . SL Tennessee will begin construction in August 2014 with a goal of being fully operational by April 2015. 2009 (the Recession officially ended in April 2009, but unemployment didn’t peak until the end of that year) to the most current numbers available (April 2014, Bureau of Labor Statistics).

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