Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2020

The County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits statistics indicate it would apply to less than 1% of permits issued each year. USGBC made substantive changes to the credit in 2015 and in 2016 and again in 2019 resulting in the current LEED v 4.1

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 28, 2016

Next month, the center will conduct its 2016 “winter peak” measurement, which represents the maximum ice coverage at the coldest time of the year. The protocol was immediately endorsed by Guggenheim Partners, which helped to draft it. Should large-scale development of the Arctic region be permitted?

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 15, 2016

The 113 page draft order found that under existing net metering rates other ratepayers were subsidizing net metering customers (e.g., Net metering is permitted, usually by state law for solar, wind, and in some instances for biomass, micro combined heat and power, and fuel cells. It is not good energy policy.

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Constructlaw

JULY 13, 2021

While thoughtful arbitration clause drafting should generally enable parties to avoid confusion over which set of the ICDR/AAA rules should apply, the ICDR’s clarification of the term ‘international’ refines what parties should expect. Second, the 2021 ICDR Rules update the consolidation process under Article 9. Digest (forthcoming).

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 14, 2016

Last year I promised myself (and family) I wouldn't submit for any speaking engagements in the coming year (2016). Autodesk released Revit 2016 R2 like they did with Revit 2015 the year before. We'll see a need for upgrading from 2016 to 2017 files but not from 2016 to 2016 R2 files. Okay, on to the list!

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Jerry Brown fired the two state regulators who had overseen a 70 percent decline in state drilling permits since 2008, a notable turnaround for a state leader who in his first stint as governor in the 1970s pioneered many of California’s landmark environmental protection statutes. Last year, CA Gov. Barstow Casino & Resort Project.

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