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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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Most high-performance building certifications and city codes use ASHRAE and ICC’s building codes to define energy performance requirements within their rating systems. In this case, an energy model is used to document the savings of the aggregated energy performance of the design over the code baseline. How to approach compliance.

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5 Themes for the Future of High Performance Buildings

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The tool is currently in development but will be designed to pull in EPDs to its database directly from the organizations that grant them, and Autodesk will also conveniently plug into the tool. HOK’s Mara Baum will expand on the topic of addressing rising technostress by designing for mindfulness at Greenbuild in Atlanta. #4:

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COVER STORY: 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The campus will be located in Covington, GA in Stanton Springs, a 1,620-acre master-designed industrial park west of Interstate 20 at the intersection of Newton, Walton, Jasper and Morgan counties. The new plant will be a green facility—it is expected to meet LEED Construction Certification environmental standards. the new plant to?more

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. SALES & USE TAX ABATEMENTS: Taxes on construction-related transactions, pollution control devices are exempt from sales and use taxes.

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