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PACE Bill Due in Baltimore City

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A public hearing is scheduled tomorrow on a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan program ordinance in Baltimore City. PACE state enabling statutes generally authorize local governments to engage private sector lenders to provide upfront low interest financing to property owners for qualified projects (e.g.,

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Lawyers' Opinions in Green Building Transactions

Green Building Law Update

The size and nature of a transaction may well affect the scope of the opinion requested and in larger traditional mortgage financing as well as bond financing, lenders attribute increased value in the security being provided for loans when a building is LEED certified or the like. a mortgage) a green building. ASHRAE 189.1

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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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CII Sees Room To Improve Industrial Project Performance | ENR.

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Sustainability. Tuchman in Baltimore. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. Building Types. Construction Methods. Haiti Reconstruction. Economic Stimulus. Safety & Health. Banking & Credit Crisis. Project Delivery. Ethics & Corruption. Economic Stimulus. Associations. Washington Observer.

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GBCI Changed its Name and You Need to Change Your Documents

Green Building Law Update

And that same month USGBC announced that it had acquired the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB), an organization committed to assessing the sustainability performance of real estate portfolios around the globe.

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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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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Within each institute, manufacturers of all sizes partner with academia and government to share manufacturing technology and workforce challenges—and build a robust, sustainable R&D infrastructure. with some Baltimore companies. King, Managing Director of the Quonset Development Corporation. and Denver. The Washington, D.C./Baltimore