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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. million existing commercial buildings in the United States today. million existing commercial buildings. greater than 80% exist in rented space within those existing commercial buildings. By Katie Stanford and Stuart Kaplow.

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GBI Acquires Green Globes Expanding Sustainability

Green Building Law Update

In 2008, JLL, a Fortune 500 company with more than $50 billion of real estate under asset management, purchased ECD, a Canadian sustainability consulting organization that had developed Green Globes. JLL continued ECD’s strategy of promoting Green Globes in Canada as a building sustainability assessment and certification system.

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

As you consider what’s “in” and what’s “out” in 2017, within the realm of green building, Passive House is in. You can come up to speed quickly at the North American Passive House Network annual convention on October 4-8, 2017 in Oakland, California. Information is available from events@psssivehousecal.org.

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New BREEAM In Use Version in a Changing World

Green Building Law Update

Last week BRE Global announced that the “BREEAM USA In-Use Version 6 for Commercial and Residential” green building rating system has launched. See my 2017 post on the First BREEAM USA In-Use Certification. Commercial buildings are able to register now and benchmark through the updated online platform.

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FITWEL may be the Future of Building Sustainability

Green Building Law Update

The well being of building occupants is increasingly being described as the number one driver of sustainability. The aims for a sustainable buildings have shifted in the U.S. million commercial buildings in the U.S., In the in the U.S. alone there are more than 120 million employees who spend an average of 8.1

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New Developments for 179D Energy Efficiency Tax Incentive

Viewpoint Construction Technology

In February of this year, Congress passed a budget that included a one-year extension of the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction, Section 179D , making it available to architects, engineers, and contractors for building projects completed in 2017. per square foot. Promoting Energy-Efficient Construction.

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Refocus the EPA through the Lens of Green Building

Green Building Law Update

By way of example, compared to the average commercial building, an oft quoted study found the LEED Gold buildings in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (known to most of us simply as BEES ) project.

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