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Phase l Assessments for Tenants are the Hottest Environmental Issue in 2020

Green Building Law Update

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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I Just Read my 1000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this Year

Green Building Law Update

Buried in the more than 800 page Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 were the very few words of Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). 9601 et seq., So while instructive, it provided little, if any, comfort to tenants.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.” Because the U.S.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

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We previously reported in 2018 on these unreliable data and made 15 SMS is a tool for asset life-cycle management that produces multi-year condition trends and investment requirements. released and first version commercially available 2003: NAVY funds development of BUILDER 3.0 (web-based

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There are More than 40 Million People in Modern Slavery

Green Building Law Update

Ignorance is not a defense. A business saying though an ESG statement on their website that they are concerned about modern slavery may sound nice, but in 2021 when so many are talking about ESG, that claim will not resonate and quite frankly falls short of what a private enterprise should be doing to prevent these crimes. (And

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Arbitration Update – The 2021 ICDR Arbitration Rules: A Welcome Update for International Construction Arbitration

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8(1)(a)); (2) all of the claims/counterclaims arise out of the same arbitration agreement (Art. 8(1)(a)); (2) all of the claims/counterclaims arise out of the same arbitration agreement (Art. Third-party Funding (Article 14). These rules, however, do not expressly give the tribunal exclusive authority over these issues.’

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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CAPCO financing, an alternative to conventional bank financing, can accommodate a slightly higher risk profile and provide a more flexible structure for growing businesses. The program is capped at 10,000 new jobs being claimed each year by all participants; whereas a taxpayer is limited to a maximum of 400 new jobs per year.

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