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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise.

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Blockchain has come to Real Estate

Green Building Law Update

In 2016, Vermont enacted House Bill 868 that provides for the enforcement of transactions using “blockchain technology” by providing a presumption of admissibility in a judicial challenge, A digital record electronically registered in a blockchain, if accompanied by a declaration that meets the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection [.

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

Green Building Law Update

LEED Commercial Interiors projects present the best single opportunity for greening buildings. Green Building Council’s LEED (the ubiquitous acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the most widely used green building rating system in the world, less than 1% of commercial buildings in the U.S.

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Blockchain has come to U.S. Real Estate

Green Building Law Update

In another high profile application, Walmart just announced it is requiring suppliers of leafy green vegetables upload growing and shipping data to blockchain by September 2019. States have been actively making the necessary changes in law since 2016. Cryptocurrency is only one (. There is no requirement for a cryptocurrency (.

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 but more than a year later, it has not been adopted anywhere. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

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2018 IgCC – A Fast Paced Deep Dive

Green Building Law Update

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 by the U.S. Green Building Council , International Code Council , ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society. the IgCC and the LEED green building program,” the ICC was only responsible for Chapter 1, Scope and Administration of the 2018 IgCC.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

a homeowner with leased photovoltaic panels on their roof) in southern Nevada by approximately $623 per year, having the effect of increasing electricity costs for the many (including disproportionately, the poor). Net metering programs that exist today are a regressive income redistribution in support of a greater political goal.

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