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Essential Reasons Why Everyone Should Be Certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a certification that aids in improving building performance and reduces the impact on the environment. It provides guidelines to create an efficient and sustainable built environment that encourages market competitiveness and public health improvement. Sustainable Sites.

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Workplace wellness: Top 3 tips for Fitwel certification

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Designing healthy buildings for healthy occupants requires keen attention to active design principles, material health, daylight, nutrition, water quality, acoustic comfort, and environmental control. How can thoughtful design encourage healthier choices, lifestyles, and work environments? .

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Maryland Schools will No Longer be LEED Certified

Green Building Law Update

Existing State Finance and Procurement Code Section 4-809(f) was amended adding new section (6), providing in relevant part, the Maryland Green Building Council shall: “(6) develop guidelines for new public school buildings to achieve the equivalent of the current version of the U.S. It was circulated last week as now effective.

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Maryland Reverting to Certifiable In Lieu of Certified Green Building

Green Building Law Update

Existing State Finance and Procurement Section 4-809(f) was amended adding new section (6), providing in relevant part, the Maryland Green Building Council shall: (6) Develop guidelines for new public school buildings to achieve the equivalent of the current version of. New public school buildings pursuing third party certification (e.g.,

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

a comprehensive rating system that provides strategies and tools for resilient building and design, was approved last week and is being launched on Monday, November 12th. The Green Business Certification Inc.’s offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

a comprehensive rating system that provides strategies and tools for resilient building and design, is expected to be launched on Monday, November 12th. The Green Business Certification Inc.’s offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

And while it is a standalone tool for measuring landscape sustainability, in June 2015, Green Business Certification Inc., the USGBC associated certification body for LEED, announced it had acquired the exclusive rights to the SITES rating system, its publications and trademarks. SITES v2 provides four certification levels.

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