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Revolutionizing the standard green lease

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As more building owners, managers, and tenants incorporate environmental stewardship and sustainability into their real estate operations, the concept of green leasing has moved into the mainstream. A green lease can cover fit-out materials, energy consumption, waste disposal, office equipment energy usage, and more.

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ESG is an Opportunity for Commercial Landlords

Green Building Law Update

Commercial real estate may be the best ESG supply chain opportunity. It offers a positive that the supply chain contract, the lease, is in writing. LEED, Green Globes and other third party verified green building rating systems provide certainty able to satisfy the E (environmental) in ESG for many organizations.

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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. million existing commercial buildings in the United States today. million existing commercial buildings. greater than 80% exist in rented space within those existing commercial buildings. The proof is in the numbers.

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COVID 19 Commercial Building Liability

Green Building Law Update

With all 50 states now in some stage of reopening from coronavirus pandemic closures, many commercial real estate owners are questioning if they can be liable for damages when someone, whether an employee of the business tenant or someone else, claims to have contracted COVID-19 at their building.

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Green light for Canary Wharf science tower

Construction Enquirer

Canary Wharf Group and Kadans Science Partner have secured planning approval from Tower Hamlets Council for a new commercial health and life sciences building. The 23-storey tower will provide 823,000 sq ft of of life sciences laboratories and workspace at the North Quay site next to Crossrail Station and new Elizabeth Line at Canary Wharf.

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Green Building Bonds as a Game Changing New Source of Capital

Green Building Law Update

Regency Centers Corporation, a publicly traded REIT, completed the sale of $250 million of “green building bonds” on May 14, 2014. ” Only days before the green building bond sale, on May 12, 2014, Regency was honored by the U.S. Green building bonds are a new investment vehicle in the U.S.

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Lawyers' Opinions in Green Building Transactions

Green Building Law Update

We are increasingly called upon to give legal opinions that a green building is LEED certified, ‘certifiable’ or otherwise really a green building. One might ask why they need an opinion from a lawyer that their building is green? a mortgage) a green building. ASHRAE 189.1

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