Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JANUARY 22, 2016

The move will bring more than 800 new jobs to metro Atlanta by 2020—most of them by 2017. The facility, which will be designed to meet requirements for LEED certification as a “green” building, is expected to open in the fall. “The health care industry is an economic driver in Georgia,” said Gov.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The six sites were tasked by the FAA with conducting “critical research into the certification and operational requirements necessary to safely integrate UAS into the national airspace in the next several years.” But not all of the players in Central NY are focused on ushering in the commercial drone industry in the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

As I posted in this blog less than a year ago, Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts are Properly Drafted. The American Institute of Architects has published standard form construction industry documents since 1888. Another 3 definitions relate to certification. For example, this could be GBCI for LEED certification.

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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. The purpose of the blog post is not to argue whether or not arbitration works as well or better than litigation. Even the Green Business Certification Inc.

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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). Note, the 2017 edition of Standard 189.1 So there is room for wider adoption of a 2018 IgCC.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 12, 2017

million square foot shopping mall located in Thousand Oaks, California, owned by Macerich is the first project achieve certification under the new BREEAM In-Use program for existing buildings. based LEED certification consultancy headed by Barry Giles. The Oaks, a 1.3 Barry is now the CEO of BREEAM USA. BRE Global Ltd.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Green Building Council and its sister organization, the Green Business Certification, Inc. As we heard from the speakers at Scot Horst’s Master Series session at Greenbuild 2017, they range from schools to airports, from offices to train stations and baseball stadiums to hospitals. There is no Arc “certification.”

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Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The bill generated a national backlash and boycotts (including a petition to move the NCAA’s headquarters and its March Madness basketball tournament out of Indianapolis) that cost the state’s convention and tourism industries an estimated $60 million. Three months later, then-Gov. workforce consists of females.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 9, 2020

Delivering a success to the environmental industrial complex through a triumph of method over magic, Montgomery is touted as the county in America with the most LEED building. Since 2017, the 2012 IgCC has been permitted in the County as an alternative to mandatory LEED building. But apparently not for long.

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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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