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Apply to be a Member of the ASHRAE Committee for Standard 189.1

Green Building Law Update

provides a “total building sustainability package” to design, build and operate green buildings. Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America, that is also the owner or more green building and more LEED certified building than anyone else, uses a variant of ASHRAE 189.1-2009. ASHRAE Standard 90.1

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You Can Change The Green Building Standard Today

Green Building Law Update

In an environment of green building standards, rating systems, and codes, it is the republishing of ASHRAE Standard 189.1 that may be the single most significant act in 2014 toward improving the built environment. provides a “total building sustainability package” to design, build and operate green buildings.

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Modern Slavery Exists and We Must Stop It Now

Green Building Law Update

“To truly regard sustainable buildings in a holistic manner, it’s our obligation to start with the supply chain serving the construction industry,” says Barry Giles, CEO of BRE America. “BRE There is no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery.

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Rooftop stormwater management technologies climate change adaptation and resilience

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There are growing interests in using green roofs, blue roofs, and blue-green roofs to manage stormwater in urban centers such as Washington DC’s Green Area Ratio (GAR) environmental sustainability zoning regulation, NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act–Local Laws 92 & 94 and San Francisco’s Better Roofs Ordinance. Green roofs.

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Rooftop stormwater management technologies climate change adaptation and resilience

Construction Specifier

There are growing interests in using green roofs, blue roofs, and blue-green roofs to manage stormwater in urban centers such as Washington DC’s Green Area Ratio (GAR) environmental sustainability zoning regulation, NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act–Local Laws 92 & 94 and San Francisco’s Better Roofs Ordinance. Green roofs.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Digital Lab will apply computing technologies to address the manufacturing challenges faced by the Department of Defense. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Organizations that provide leadership and commitment to collaborative environments are rare. Common data environment (glossary of terms and definitions, locally researched detailed unit price cost data). Associated General Contractors of America, “Partnering: A Concept for Success,” Washington, D.C. Shared vision. Badenfelt, U.