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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

Stok

Some exciting news coming out of California means big things for Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), which analyze a product’s full life cycle environmental impacts and identify prioritized areas for carbon reduction. AB 2446 will have a large impact on developers and the development landscape in California and beyond.

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Zero Waste in an Era of Net Zero Everything

Green Building Law Update

By analogy, nearly all businesses choose to include a warning label that nearly everything from a padlock, to jewelry, to a dish to a flashlight may cause cancer, to comply with California law that defines “no significant risk” (. In 2022, business needs to move faster and farther toward repairing the world.

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Ken Calligar Is Shaping a New Era of Resilient Construction

Pro Builder

We have condos on the beach in Grand Cayman as well as commercial buildings, LEED Gold municipal buildings, buildings on the campus of the University of California, and prisons in Georgia. California energy codes are coming east. We did 3 1/2 years of testing at the University of California, Irvine, including NATO ballistic testing.

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Coating for sustainability

Construction Specifier

Every high-performance coating system is designed to guard surfaces against corrosion and ultraviolet (UV) light degradation, ultimately extending the life cycle of a building. When the project team decided to go green during construction, high-performance coatings might not be the first thing on their minds, but maybe they should be.

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Insulation in the extreme

Construction Specifier

On January 1, 2021, new regulations became effective in California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and all of Canada banning the use of high global warming potential (GWP) hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) blowing agents. In response to climate change, the Canadian government and a growing number of U.S.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: California's.

Natural Building

Californias Green Building Code. California has adopted the nations first statewide green-building standards, which will become mandatory in 2010. The new California Green Buildings Standards Code requires builders to reduce energy use by 15 to 30 percent beyond current standards and use more recycled materials. Yeah California!