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Tenant’s New Defense to Hazardous Substance Liability

Green Building Law Update

The Consolidated Appropriations Act signed on March 23, 2018 included in Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). Such is a real issue when in any given year the vast majority of commercial and industrial real estate transactions are leases and not contracts of sale.

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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., Such is a dramatically large issue with the economic contribution of real estate to the U.S.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

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

Green Building Law Update

The majority of our work in reviewing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments is for lenders across the country, much of that undertaken by a non law subsidiary of this law firm, but the fastest growing segment in this space, by far, is Phase Is for commercial tenants. 9601 et seq.,

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Tenants Order Phase l to Avoid Hazardous Substance Liability

Green Building Law Update

Buried in the Consolidated Appropriations Act last year was Division N, the ‘‘Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2018’’ (the BUILD Act). Such is a real issue when in any given year the vast majority of commercial and industrial real estate transactions are leases and not contracts of sale. 9601 et seq.,

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Oshkosh First Quarter Net Sales up 31 Percent

Construction Equipment

Oshkosh Corporation reports its 2018 first quarter net income was $56.4 Consolidated net sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 were $1.59 The Company reported double-digit percentage sales growth in the defense, access equipment and commercial segments. million, compared to $19.2 billion, an increase of 30.9

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#109:  Liability Insurers' Duty to Defend

NH Construction Law

”) Parsing of claims and theories, and furnishing a defense to only the covered ones, is not allowed. Few commercial general liability policies do.) Withholding consent to a partial settlement solely to keep the insurer on the hook for defense costs might well be deemed unreasonable. City of Keene , 898 F.2d