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Maryland is First State to Legislate Permitted Use of PFAS

Green Building Law Update

actually 3 separate bills) expressly permitting PFAS (. HB 619 was also significantly amended from the originally drafted local bill seeking to protect Baltimore County firefighters from fire-fighting foam (. The Department of Defense has identified 15 bases in Maryland “known to have releases of PFAS.” It passed legislation (.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0 addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. is made clear by the draft’s own words, “[t]he RELi 2.0

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

ft) flame under controlled conditions of draft and temperature onto the surface of a 7.4-m Field cutting across the grain (cut-to-length) is permitted after treatment without field treatment of cut ends. Fire performance is evaluated using UL 723, Standard for Test for Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials. IBC 2018 Ed.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

But the largest owner of green buildings (also the owner of the most LEED certified buildings) the Department of Defense has largely taken itself out of this discussion with a waiver that provides, Department of Defense prohibits the sharing of metered data with private entities, such as USGBC. Some data transmission is involuntary.

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constructionattorneyblog: AIA plans change to Statute of Limitations.

Construction Lawyer

The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. For a number of months, draft versions have been distributed to various groups for comment. AIA plans change to Statute of Limitations provisions.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. The work was labor-intensive at the time—everything was hand-drawn on drafting boards—and everyone still wore white shirts and ties. Postal Service, and several agencies in Department of Defense.

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Arbitration Update – The 2021 ICDR Arbitration Rules: A Welcome Update for International Construction Arbitration

Constructlaw

While thoughtful arbitration clause drafting should generally enable parties to avoid confusion over which set of the ICDR/AAA rules should apply, the ICDR’s clarification of the term ‘international’ refines what parties should expect. Second, the 2021 ICDR Rules update the consolidation process under Article 9.