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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

Last week the American Institute of Architects released the 2017 edition of the A201 family of contract documents, including updated versions of the AIA’s documents developed for the design-bid-build delivery model. The use of an exhibit for sustainable projects is new. the IgCC and more.

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April 2017 Newsletter – A “New, New OSHA” Emerges

FDR Safety

1, 2016, and the other from February 15, 2017. OSHA wants to hear from the public on draft Process Safety Management guidance documents. February 15, 2017. The post April 2017 Newsletter – A “New, New OSHA” Emerges appeared first on FDRsafety. You can compare the headlines yourself.

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Move quickly from design to fabrication with Autodesk Advance Steel 2017

BIM & Beam

Yesterday we announced the release of Autodesk ® Advance Steel 2017. The latest version of Advance Steel adds a host of new features and enhancements that help improve productivity and usability, and allow fabrication documents to be drafted and documented more easily to support BIM enabled workflows.

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Revit 2017 - Calculated Values in Tags

Revit OpEd

Regardless it wouldn't hurt to have a Drafting View set aside with the text versions of all the formulas we use stored there. Since these can be used in schedules and tags, and it has to be done separately for each use, it probably makes sense to document all of the formulas we use so they are easily harvested for another project.

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Longtime Tucson Green Building Pioneer Dies at 88

Pro Builder

He also helped draft the National Association of Home Builders' green-building code and served as a senior life director of the NAHB. . In 2017, Miller received the SAHBA Legacy Award for Lifetime Contribution, and today, his impact reverberates through the Tucson home building community, forever changed by the legacy he leaves behind.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0 on April 28, 2017, addressing the same flooding issues, but differently, acknowledging the large urban area’s drainage systems are designed to handle approximately the current 3 year storm (. Of note, RELi 2.0

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The World is being Forced to Rethink Recycling

Green Building Law Update

And in March, 2017 China announced its new National Sword standard although the details were not clear to many in the West until the July 18 notice that the level of contaminants in plastic and paper recyclables China buys must be no more than 0.3%. China has long had an official standard that contaminants in imported waste not exceed 1.5%