BD+C

JANUARY 2, 2020

rating system, has become the largest building in the United States to earn LEED Platinum certification. The Willis Tower is currently undergoing a more than $500 million renovation that will transition it from an office building into a neighborhood that delivers life and work experiences.

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United States Certification Renovating Office 105

Green Building Law Update

MAY 17, 2020

An update to the BREEAM In-Use online platform, which is used to facilitate the benchmarking and certification process, has also been rolled out with an improved user interface. See my 2017 post on the First BREEAM USA In-Use Certification. this is not a new construction rating system).

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Green ICSC Certification Commercial 294

Business Facilities

MARCH 15, 2022

ENERGY STAR certified plants are among the most energy-efficient plants within their industries. Together, 93 plants prevented more than 5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector.

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Certification Industrial United States Sustainability 88

Construction Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The main purpose of the website is to better connect employers with skilled workers in the United States. Licenses and Certifications. This feature allows users to prominently feature the licenses and certifications that they have earned. The site is styled after LinkedIn. Work Hands Features. Additional Details.

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Site Certification Construction Employment 237

Constructonomics

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In today’s post, she delves into the timely topic of integrating efficient construction management and LEED certifications into building practices to lower operating costs and reduce energy use. A building can still be energy efficient and save money without being LEED certified, but certification often opens the door to even more benefits.

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Certification Management Green Construction 122

Safety Services Company

MAY 23, 2013

OSHA Considering Expanding Crane Certification Requirement 3 Years. This article was written by Safety Consultants with Safety Services Company , we provide Construction, Manufacturing, and General Industry Safety Programs to over 100,000 clients across the United States and Canada. 10, 2017. General Industry'

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Certification OSHA Safety United States 48

Viewpoint Construction Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Just look at how many projects aim to achieve LEED certification or the new BREEAM certification, which we recently discussed here on Viewpoint Surveyor. If an owner wants to achieve LEED certification, the building will need specific materials and features. In fact, it’s become pretty commonplace in the construction industry.

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Green Certification Construction Viewpoint 144

BD+C

JUNE 18, 2018

campus of EMD Serono, a biopharmaceutical business of Merck that focuses on specialty care, became the first in the United States to receive Gold-level certification for New and Existing Buildings from the International WELL Building Institute. An R&D building on the Billerica, Mass.,

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Massachusetts United States Certification 68

Green Building Law Update

JULY 3, 2016

United States , is a win for small businesses and very good for those that work on Green Globes projects. Among the significant beneficiaries of this Supreme Court decision will be the many small businesses involved with Green Globes green building assessment and certification system. The recent unanimous decision of the U.S.

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Green Certification United States Contract 120

BD+C

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Turner Construction Company, the leading general builder in the United States, today announced the results of a new Market Barometer survey that focused on environmentally-sustainable, or “Green,” building, and on sustainable practices in general. read more. read more.

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Certification Green United States Sustainability 49

Construction Superintendent Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

. -- NCCER was honored with the Construction Users Roundtable Workforce Development Award for its National Craft Assessment & Certification Program at the 2013 CURT National Conference held Nov. 11-13 in Tucson, Ariz.

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Certification Tucson United States Education 40

Green Building Law Update

JUNE 26, 2016

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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Site Certification Green Sustainability 149

Safety Services Company

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Businesses have to analyze and assess multiple suppliers to find the most compatible ones, and they often require their vendors to have certain licenses, qualifications, and certifications. ISNetworld® In 2020, roughly 738,281 contractor companies in the United States supplied various services.

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Management Contractors Safety OSHA 110

Pro Builder

APRIL 18, 2023

government’s potential role in the future of off-site construction in the United States and how industrialized construction can advance a nation's housing industry, a U.S. Learning From Japan's Off-Site Construction Experience ibush Tue, 04/18/2023 - 07:55 Insights into how the U.S. delegation, including representatives from the U.S.

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Site Construction United States Banking 52

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 21, 2014

While hundreds of governments throughout the United States have adopted programs incentivizing green building, many tied to the LEED rating system, Arlington County, Virginia is the first to tie incentives specifically to the new LEED version 4. floor area ratio (FAR) bonus density in exchange for obtaining a LEED Silver certification.

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Arlington Certification Green DC 120

Green Building Law Update

JUNE 26, 2016

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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Site Certification Green Sustainability 120

Construction Superintendent Magazine

MARCH 27, 2014

With a score of 80 required to achieve Platinum level, the GIS building earned 89 out of a possible 110 points from the USGBC, which named the RIT facility “exceptional” and rated it among the top 1 percent of all green buildings in the United States today. frontpage'

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Sustainability Certification United States Green 53

Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 4, 2020

New and existing buildings meeting higher levels of LEED certification receive increasingly higher levels of the property tax credit for five and three years, respectively. Under current law, the green building tax credit is tied to the LEED or its equivalent. The County caps the overall tax expenditure for this credit at $5 million annually.

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Green Certification Maryland Commercial 177

Job Order Contracting

MAY 17, 2022

Additionally, GHGRP (codified at 40 CFR Part 98) requires reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) data and other relevant information from large GHG emission sources, fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites in the United States. Change is difficult for everyone. “Greenwashing” is a huge problem.

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Regulation Risk Equity Organization 226

Construction Equipment

MAY 24, 2017

The EPA's release said, "The complaint alleges that FCA equipped nearly 104,000 Ram 1500 and Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles (Model Years 2014-2016) sold in the United States with at least eight software-based features that were not disclosed in FCA’s applications for certificates of conformity and that affect the vehicles’ emission control systems."

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US United States Certification Software 50

BD+C

JUNE 8, 2016

Green Building Council’s LEED green building and certification programs have become ubiquitous standards for nonresidential construction, both in the United States and internationally. After more than two decades on the front lines of tracking and recognizing sustainable building practices, the U.S.

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United States Certification Green Sustainability 40

BD+C

JUNE 8, 2016

Green Building Council’s LEED green building and certification programs have become ubiquitous standards for nonresidential construction, both in the United States and internationally. After more than two decades on the front lines of tracking and recognizing sustainable building practices, the U.S.

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United States Certification Green Sustainability 40

Green Building Law Update

MARCH 23, 2014

On March 18th the Tomkins County legislature enacted a new local law providing for up to a 10 year property tax abatement for construction achieving LEED certification. The amount of the exemption permitted varies by year and by the certification level achieved. but you knew that).

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Green Certification New York Baltimore 120

Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 4, 2015

What is unique in the applications due by January 30, 2015 is that up to 10 points may be awarded to those developments which meet Passive House certification requirements (national or international). Actual Passive House “certification” from PHIUS or the Passive House Academy is not required.

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Pennsylvania Housing Green Income 120

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Even a building owner not pursuing green certification can take advantage of benchmarking against specific credits within those green building rating systems (e.g., government and The Group of Seven.

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Commercial California Green Organization 156

Contractor Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The Taco Innovation and Development Center (IDC), which opened in mid-2012, has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

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Innovation United States Certification Green 40

BD+C

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It is the first hotel in the United States to use solar, geothermal, and radiant heating and cooling and is also one of only five hotels in the country designed to qualify for LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

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United States Certification Green Sustainability 40

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 14, 2013

In 2005, Ordinance 15118 required all new County projects with budgets over $250,000 seek the highest LEED certification “that is cost effective based on life cycle cost analysis” and the limits of available funding. ” That law was set to expire on December 31, 2013. The new Ordinance will be greener and require, each.

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Green Certification Sustainability Life Cycle 120

Construction Equipment

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If a new proposed rule from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is approved, drones will be authorized for commercial use in the United States. . Drone operators would have to obtain an unmanned operating certificate, and follow certain restrictions, including keeping the drone within sight.'

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Commercial United States Certification 48

Contractor Magazine

MARCH 10, 2015

campus has earned United States Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Platinum certification, the first City University of New York (CUNY) and university-level teaching and research facility in New York City to be awarded this certification. Science Hall facility at Lehman College’s Bronx, N.Y. Green Hydronics Plumbing'

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New York City New York Certification United States 40

Construction Specifier

MARCH 12, 2021

Manufacturers are also publishing many forms of transparency, including environmental product declarations (EPDs), product environmental profiles (PEPs), health product declarations (HPDs), Declare Labels, Cradle to Cradle (C2C) and Material Health Certificates, and the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Product Lens Certifications.

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Certification Materials Green Products 57

Best Practices Construction Law

MARCH 5, 2018

Waukegan Steel, LLC , an employee brought a False Claims Act (FCA) against his employer for false billing and certification on a goverment project. The subcontractor was required to submit “fabrication quality control and weld inspection certificates” to the government before payment was issued. 3730(b).

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Claims Certification Fabrication Inspections 63

Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 30, 2016

it all started with fire testing for homes), with over 2,247,696 BREEAM registered buildings across 77 countries in its sustainability assessment method, will before the end of the year award its first BREEAM In-Use certification in the United States. based LEED certification consultancy headed by Barry Giles.

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Certification Los Angeles Green Commercial 120

Green Building Law Update

MAY 14, 2017

Last week the ICC and ASHRAE issued joint news releases on the status of the “unified green building code that could become the foundation for LEED certification” that will be published as the 2018 version of the International Green Construction Code. to green building has been dramatic. will be green.

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Green Certification Foundation Innovation 120

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I had a conversation with Jerry Yudelson last week, six weeks after he became the President of the Green Building Initiative, the non profit with the rights to distribute Green Globes in the United States. He confidently says his goal is to increase certification to more than 10,000 in the next five years.

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Green Certification Retail United States 174

Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

More than 50 United States Congressman signed a letter voicing their concern "that the LEED rating system is becoming a tool to punish chemical companies and plastics makers." The USGBC long ago selected FSC wood as the anointed certification for wood products. The negative reaction to this credit was fast and furious.

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Green Certification Drafting Drawings 120

Construction Business Owner

APRIL 12, 2012

And, just last week, the United States Green Building Council published a report that estimates from 2009-2013 the green building industry will support 8 million jobs throughout the economy. You need to be a certified LEED contractor, which means you’ll need to study for and take the certification test.

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Construction Certification Green Software 120