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Hastings is Adopting a Unique Green Building Code

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The Code will apply to all residential and commercial projects that require a building permit. In addition to those mandated requirements, the Code delineates a list of ‘greener’ optional sustainable measures. In point of fact, more than 400 local governments across the country tie their green policies to LEED.

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Magnolia LNG Announces $2.2 Billion Export Facility In Louisiana

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The company expects to make a final investment decision to move forward with the project in late 2014, after it secures permits and completes financing. Magnolia LNG would produce 4 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas per year, and construction would begin in 2015, pending the company’s attainment of permits and final financing.

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COVID-19 workplace updates: financial & environmental impact

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To tie these two crises together through the built environment, stok’s engineering team has quantified the energy and environmental—and associated financial—impact of some of the recommended practices for mitigating the spread of coronavirus, as well as what steps building owners and tenants can take to help offset this increased energy impact.

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Maryland Adopts 42 New Environmental Laws in 2021

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The bill, that may be the single most significant enactment of the session, also establishes a new policy of the State to support and encourage public and private tree planting, with the goal of planting and helping to maintain 5,000,000 sustainable native trees in Maryland by the end of 2031. Prohibition on Balloon Releases.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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Compliance to building energy codes is typically overseen by local building permit offices at the city level who first review plans to ensure that buildings comply with the code requirements regardless of which path is pursued. The graph below depicts the progress made by building energy codes through 2012. source: ACEEE.

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QR Codes Unlocking Secrets of NYC Building Permits | ENR.

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Environment. Sustainability. QR Codes Unlocking Secrets of NYC Building Permits. New York City building permits are sprouting up with QR codes that instantly unlock vast amounts of project information. It is now nearing the issuance of its 200,000th building permit with a QR code. Search our site: Infrastructure.

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Tapping LA’s Rooftop Solar Potential Could Benefit City’s Most Disadvantaged Communities

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Prior studies commissioned by the LABC Institute have concluded that Los Angeles has 10,000 acres of rooftop solar potential, enough to support a FIT far larger than the 600 megawatt program recommended in the study released from the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. .