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4BT OpenCost(TM) Local Market Granular Cost Data an RSmeans Alternative?

Job Order Contracting

4 Supported by secure cloud technology and information management practices (NIST, CMMC LvL 3 compliant) enabling Program, Project, Proposal, Estimate, Workorder, Document, and Issues/Task Mangement, and more. . #3 Proven and in use by multiple public sector deparments and agencies. #4 Martinez, A., Built Environ. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1111563

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Arbitration is Why There is So Little Litigation in Green Building

Green Building Law Update

With over a million contract documents licensed on an annual basis, the AIA’s form construction documents are the most widely used contract documents in the industry. And such is a big deal in this consideration when the Department of Defense is the largest owner of green buildings.

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Eco Terrorism is Not in the Headlines so Did it Ever Exist?

Green Building Law Update

As such, it is little surprise that there were no headlines when on a January 7, 2015, U.S. Then the adoption of the PATRIOT Act was further fuel for the hunt for “radical environmental activists” such that, after years of decline, by 2012 there were no “eco-terrorist attacks” in the U.S. District Judge Morrison C.

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Job Order Contracting – 2015

Building Information Management

While having its roots in United States Department of Defense; non-DoD Federal Government, State/County/Local Government, Education, Healthcare, Transportation, and Utilities are now included as JOC users and proponents. References: A Path Toward Construction Productivity – Academia.edu, July 2015.

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You Can Change The Green Building Standard Today

Green Building Law Update

will be republished in 2014 for adoption in the IgCC 2015. Standards are most simply a consensus document developed and published to define minimum values of acceptable performance. ASHRAE standard 189.1 You can go online today and participate in meetings, public reviews, and more. Codes are the law.

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

Green Building Law Update

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. will be published in that same document as an alternative compliance path. The 2018 version of the IgCC has been characterized by the ICC as being powered by 189.1. ASHRAE 189.1

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#80: Transitioning to the New Building Codes

NH Construction Law

There are bound to be some fits and starts in implementing the transition – a subject the legislation adopting the 2015 codes did not address, and which is therefore left to the municipalities to deal with. of the 2015 International Building Code and Section 106.3.2 Section 107.3.2 Don’t expect consistency here.