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Green Code Mandatory on April 1 For All Building in Baltimore

Green Building Law Update

Baltimore City adopted the International Green Construction Code 2012 as an overlay to the City’s building, fire and related codes effective April 1, 2015. By Jacqueline Lusk and Stuart Kaplow. ” Read on. one or two family dwellings, etc.). This delay in effective date is a big deal.

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London Olympics Construction Is Safest in Recent Times | ENR.

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Sustainability. Alistair Gibb, professor of complex project management at Loughborough University in England, talked about safety at the London Olympics at a Construction Industry Institute meeting in Baltimore. Gibb spoke to more than 600 attendees at the Construction Industry Institute conference in Baltimore on July 23.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Green Building Law Update

The bill, that may be the single most significant enactment of the session, also establishes a new policy of the State to support and encourage public and private tree planting, with the goal of planting and helping to maintain 5,000,000 sustainable native trees in Maryland by the end of 2031.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. Ackerstein Sustainability LLC.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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They also offer a Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program that assists communities implementing “smart growth strategies,” and the CalReUSE Program that offers low-interest, forgivable loans to assist public and private partners in redeveloping contaminated “brownfields.” Expand fuel infrastructure, fueling stations and equipment.

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