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2018 IgCC Poised to be Adopted for the First Time

Green Building Law Update

Montgomery County, Maryland is on the cusp of being the first to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code. But in what is being described as a requiem to LEED in America, the 2018 IgCC will now be required, but LEED will no longer satisfy the local legal green building mandate in Montgomery County.

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The Inefficiencies of the Latest Energy Code

Pro Builder

per month in Climate Zone 2 (see map below) and $0.92 per month in Climate Zone 3 for a standard 2,500 square-foot single-family house, yet it costs roughly $1,366 to achieve that level of insulation. The results provided a basis for estimating energy use savings and cost effectiveness of individual measures.

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Important Factors to Consider When Building a New Home

CivilJungle

So when we want to build a new home, we also have to consider all our needs related to home and comfort zone. The number of occupants and their needs or comfort zone should consider doing the design. For service, sun power windows are estimated in the living room. 2018 Revenue: $18.8 2018 Revenue: $9.8 Lennar Corp.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An The JDIG was approved by the state’s Economic Investment Committee.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine. for Fast Company.

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Housing and the 2020 Presidential Election

Pro Builder

a speculation fueled in part by the National Association of Home Builders’ 2018 estimate that tariffs on imported softwood lumber imposed by the Trump administration added, on average, $9,000 to a home’s cost— tariffs that continue to contribute to price spikes.

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Air barriers: An essential part of the building envelope

GCP Applied Technologies

Fri, 12/07/2018 - 15:53. December 07, 2018. Estimating energy savings. The study included cities in a variety of climatic zones—including Miami, Phoenix, St. Savings were greatest in the “cold weather” zones. Estimating energy savings. Air barriers: An essential part of the building envelope. Energy savings.