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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

This history combined with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) in 1994 which regulates the use of IDIQ, and availability of tools, cost data, services, and technology by more innovative JOC vendors, have made JOC more transparent, efficient, and competitive. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Volume I, Subpart 16.5,

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

Major Holdings, LLC , held a party could not assert a CERCLA defense because its Phase l report did not comply with the EPA rule. CRECs arise from a past release of a hazardous substance that has been addressed to the satisfaction of regulators, but carry some implementation of controls, like a drinking water restriction.

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

Green Building Law Update

For years, in our sustainability law practice, we have assisted businesses manage carbon asset risk. Today, we are particularly cognizant of the fast evolving and changing dynamic between legal and technological factors that drive companies’ decision making processes. yes, this blog will continue).

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Best Practice Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

a) Job Order Contracting (JOC) is an alternative contracting method to fulfill requirements for sustainment, restoration, and modernization (SRM) projects at installation level (post, camp or station), with an estimated value exceeding $2000 , but not exceeding the amount of SRM authority delegated to the installation by the ACOM and/or HQDA. “Job

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Journal of Legal. Partnering on defense contracts. Federal acquisition regulation. Delivering Sustainable, High-Performance Buildings: Influence of Project Delivery Methods on Integration and Project Outcomes. Anderson, L., & Polkinghorn, B. Efficacy of Partnering on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Shamsuddin, S.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”

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Is California Going to Ban Cows in the Name of Climate Change?

Green Building Law Update

The root of this Proposal was an October 16, 2014 rulemaking petition filed with the Air Resources Board by the nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund seeking to have the State regulate greenhouse gas emissions from animal agriculture. This is not even a save the planet by eating less meat initiative.