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Greenbuild Clearly Showed the State of LEED is Strong

Green Building Law Update

This post is a compilation of the highlights from the just completed Greenbuild International Conference and Expo that took place last week in Chicago. It is a given that each year Greenbuild is “the” target rich environment for networking with others across the environmental industrial complex and for learning about what is new from the U.S.

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Fall Conference Circuit: 12 Top Takeaways

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This could potentially be incentivized by baking it into recycling facility certification requirements. CoreNet Global Summit 2018 | Boston, MA. #4: stok Founder Matt Macko accepted the CoreNet 2018 Sustainable Leadership Award on behalf of NRDC for the LEED Gold and Living Building Challenge Petal certified NRDC San Francisco office.

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Illinois Is Top State For LEED Green Building

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Illinois retained its top national position on USGBC ’s annual Top 10 States for LEED list for the third year in a row, with 161 LEED certifications representing 3.43 Notable projects certified in 2015’s Top 10 States for LEED include: Illinois: Virgin Hotel Chicago; LEED Gold. billion from 2015–2018. .

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Shovel-Ready Sites: Ready To Hit The Ground Running

Business Facilities

are implementing site certification programs that give available sites a shovel ready designation—meaning that the site is primed and ready for economic development. To achieve certification, sites go through a rigorous review process. States across the U.S. The outcome?

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

But so far some of the windiest environs we know of—the coastal U.S. ACHIEVEMENT IN SITE CERTIFICATION. We have two winners for this year’s award for Achievement in Site Certification: Indiana Economic Development Corp. waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific—have been off-limits to wind-energy installations.

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The Future of the Built Environment in 2019

Stok

So, we wanted to take a more casual route for a look forward and tap on members of the stok team to answer the question: What is the future of the built environment in 2019? If we think about where sustainable design in the built environment is now, resilient design clearly has potential to rapidly take shape in the coming year and beyond.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

Business Facilities

Competitive electric costs, coupled with the convenience of responsive local utilities, have helped foster an environment where companies want to invest. percent between 2008 and 2018. This favorable environment has helped Oliver Manufacturing to grow its labor force by more than 30 percent in the last year.