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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

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DoD hasn’t achieved a clean audit since independent audits were initiated in 2017. Because we found the components’ facility condition data were unreliable due to missing and inaccurate entries, as noted above, we were unable to analyze the relationship between facility sustainment funding and facility condition.

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Apply to be a Member of the ASHRAE Committee for Standard 189.1

Green Building Law Update

The deadline to make application for Project Committee membership is March 15, 2017. provides a “total building sustainability package” to design, build and operate green buildings. Since 2013, the Department of Defense has used UFC 1-200-02 High Performance And Sustainable Building Requirement. ASHRAE Standard 90.1

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 Since 2017, RELi has been managed by the USGBC which, in conjunction with MTS and others led the evolution of RELi 2.0 not RELi’s 500 year storm).

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

In 2017 Sweden became the first nation to enshrine a ‘net zero by 2045’ target into law, but the law actually only requires 5 year reports on progress. For years, in our sustainability law practice, we have assisted businesses manage carbon asset risk. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 Since 2017, RELi has been managed by the USGBC which, in conjunction with MTS and others led the evolution of RELi 2.0 not RELi’s 500 year storm).

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Deadline to Propose Changes to National Green Building Standard

Green Building Law Update

As part of that development process, individuals and groups have been invited to propose changes to the 2015 edition of the NGBS submit proposed changes to the NGBS online by March 1, 2017. To appreciate the very large impact that the military has on the real estate industry, it is budgeted to spend more than $20 Billion on housing in 2017.

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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0 Since 2017, RELi has been managed by the USGBC which, in conjunction with MTS and others led the evolution of RELi 2.0 This is the drama of being alive.