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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. Fri, 11/02/2018 - 19:24. November 02, 2018. Commercial buildings. Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. michael.delros…. GCP Applied Technologies. Plants are graded on a 100-point scale: Bronze: 30-49 points. Sustainability.

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Your ENERGY STAR Score is About to Fall Precipitously

Green Building Law Update

Building owners that utilize ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager will see a dramatic change in the 1 to 100 ENERGY STAR scores after August 26, 2018. commercial building space is benchmarked in Portfolio Manager (versus less than 1% of U.S. commercial building is LEED certified). You have 75 days to act. sort of) by the U.S.

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New Green Building Tax Credit is a Progressive Effort

Green Building Law Update

Bill 10-20 dramatically upgrades the Maryland county’s existing green building real property tax credit, prioritizing energy reduction in the name of GHG emission reduction, in new and existing commercial and multifamily buildings and ensuring incentives are now given only for buildings that surpass requirements of the County’s building code.

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GBI Acquires Green Globes Expanding Sustainability

Green Building Law Update

JLL continued ECD’s strategy of promoting Green Globes in Canada as a building sustainability assessment and certification system. As of January 2, 2018, 1,594 buildings in the U.S. GBI, a nonprofit organization, had first licensed the U.S. GBI has experienced significant growth over the past 2 years. have been certified by GBI.

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The Opportunity for ENERGY STAR

Green Building Law Update

While much of the media hyperbole has focused on the Trump Administration’s 2018 Budget request of $5.7 million homes and more than 25,000 commercial buildings carry Energy Star certification. Green Building Council associated, Green Business Certification Inc. One of the key ways the U.S. More than 1.6

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Green Globes 01-201X about to be Green Lighted

Green Building Law Update

The real news behind that headline causing great enthusiasm is that after a 3 year process, the Green Building Initiative is nearing the end and a completely revised “Green Globes Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings” will be available in 2018. This is not year 2000, when LEED was the first and only green building game in U.S.

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

Green Building Law Update

offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design. In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits. Much more than only anticipating rising water, RELi 2.0 in large measure.