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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets.

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets.

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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

A business that generates renewable energy, say, with solar panels, but sells the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for that renewable energy may not then claim it “uses” renewable energy. The Federal Trade Commissions has prescribed that such would be deceptive. Among the relevant language in the Green Guides is, §260.15

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

Green Building Law Update

LEED Commercial Interiors projects present the best single opportunity for greening buildings. Green Building Council’s LEED (the ubiquitous acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the most widely used green building rating system in the world, less than 1% of commercial buildings in the U.S.

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 but more than a year later, it has not been adopted anywhere. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

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2018 IgCC – A Fast Paced Deep Dive

Green Building Law Update

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 by the U.S. Green Building Council , International Code Council , ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society. the IgCC and the LEED green building program,” the ICC was only responsible for Chapter 1, Scope and Administration of the 2018 IgCC.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

Green Building Law Update

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Additionally, the bill establishes a Commission for the Innovation and Advancement of Carbon Markets and Sustainable Tree Plantings charged with developing a plan to achieve the State’s carbon mitigation goals. Prohibition on Balloon Releases.

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