Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

It is surprising to many in the environmental industrial complex that there has been relatively little litigation arising out of green building. And there is no question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. Even the Green Business Certification Inc. Legal scholars can have at it.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

There is little question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. And while much of the recent discourse has been about contracts with consumers, alternative dispute resolution provisions, including those requiring arbitration are common in construction industry contracts.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

As part of that development process, individuals and groups have been invited to propose changes to the 2015 edition of the NGBS submit proposed changes to the NGBS online by March 1, 2017. To appreciate the very large impact that the military has on the real estate industry, it is budgeted to spend more than $20 Billion on housing in 2017.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Southwest Louisiana is undergoing an industrial renaissance with record amounts of domestic and foreign-direct investment in new chemical and energy projects,” Gov. We encourage all of our industries to consider SWLA as a potential home base for their headquarters facilities.”. Edwards said. “We Businesses come first in St.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

For purposes of this blog post highlighting some of the significant changes in the 2018 IgCC, the new code will be contrasted with the 2012 IgCC and not the 2015 version (which later version we are only aware a single jurisdiction has adopted). So there is room for wider adoption of a 2018 IgCC. Sec 901.4.1.4.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

SMUD is a major force in helping Sacramento develop into a leading clean tech/green tech industry center. At the time, this solar installation was the largest single-site industrial project in California and one of the largest in the country. Barstow Industrial Park. gigawatt hours of electricity a year.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 15, 2014

Alabama Infrastructure Grant Program: Funds are available to public entities for extension of water, sewer and road facilities to service new or expanding industries. Alabama Industrial Access Road & Bridge Program: Provides financial assistance to communities for industrial access to new and expanding industries.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Note, that Montgomery County is not adopting the current 2015 version of the IgCC. While the IgCC 2015 was approved 2 years ago, that version is not approved for use by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development which requires each jurisdiction in Maryland use the same edition of the same building codes.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 7, 2018

I am not naïve enough to think that the new 2018 versions of green building standards, codes and rating systems will do all of that or what “The Jungle” did to meat packing or what “Unsafe At Any Speed” did to the automotive industry, but it is clear that the real estate industry is developing out of its green building adolescence.

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