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The Hershey Company Investing $135M In Virginia

Business Facilities

With its second major expansion of Stuarts Draft manufacturing operation since 2019, the chocolate company will create 110 new jobs in Augusta County, VA. Read: The Hershey Company Investing $135M In Virginia at BusinessFacilities.com.

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No Free Warranty: Connecticut Court Adopts Correction or Repair Test

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ALS’s subcontract permitted the DOT to hold back 60% of its payments to assure ALS would warranty the work, which ALS did with site checks performed between June 2019 and May 2020. At trial, however, ALS attempted to portray its 2019-2020 site checks as part of its “core contractual obligations.” Click here to view full opinion as PDF.

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Two New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19

Green Building Law Update

creating a re-occupancy assessment and requirements for an operations plan and the drafting of a management and operations plan. It is a social science study that requires keeping a daily journal of plan implementation including answering questions like, “Are you in control of your life?”. LEED BD+C: New Construction v4.1

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Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County

Green Building Law Update

USGBC made substantive changes to the credit in 2015 and in 2016 and again in 2019 resulting in the current LEED v 4.1 SSpc55 credit , but zealots may have preferred the originally drafted version by the American Bird Conservancy?

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0 is made clear by the draft’s own words, “[t]he RELi 2.0 The Green Business Certification Inc.’s s newest rating system, RELi 2.0 Resilience is becoming widely accepted.

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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

In late 2019 hazardous waste incinerators in at least three states were destroying PFAS fire-fighting foam (. HB 619 was also significantly amended from the originally drafted local bill seeking to protect Baltimore County firefighters from fire-fighting foam (. more precisely, aqueous film-forming foams) containing PFAS.

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Gobble Gobble First and Then You Can Put Up the Christmas Tree. Well, Kinda.

Best Practices Construction Law

31, 2019), the Superior Court of Connecticut squarely addressed this precise issue in a case involving a change order dispute between a contractor and subcontractor. In VVM Builders, LLC v. Atkins Construction Group, LLC, No. CV195021541S (Oct. ”).