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Cost effective FSRM Facilities Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization

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Cost effective facilities FSRM, Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization can now be accomplished with the integration of robust process and planning, procurement, and project delivery teams within a common data environment (CDE) inclusive of current, local market, granular line item construction task data. Sustainment.

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DOE Releases Green Lease Website, and More Musings on the Split Incentive "Problem"

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The Department of Energy and several interesting partners (both BOMA and NRDC, for example) have launched a website consolidating green lease resources. A number of public agency versions of leases, as well as some guidance documents are included. Energy costs represent about $1 per square foot, in a $150+ per square foot lease.

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Lawyers' Opinions in Green Building Transactions

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Traditionally, legal opinions in the context of loan transactions provide assurances that the loan documents are valid, binding and enforceable. IGCC Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability green building green building law lawyers opinions' Photo Univ of Baltimore School of Law LEED Platinum Building. ASHRAE 189.1

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LEED Abandoned by DOD?

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In the recent past, all new DOD construction projects were required to meet the LEED Silver or an equivalent standard and/or to comply with the five principles of High Performance Sustainable Buildings. This new code, based heavily on ASHRAE 189.1, Full Testimony.

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STATEMENT OF KEVIN KAMPSCHROER DIRECTOR OFFICE OF FEDERAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTWIDE POLICY U.S. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Executive Orders in two successive Administrations also have been issued to accomplish sustainability targets, but is anything truly being done in a productive manner? The DOD however, especially the Air Force has full documented and working JOC programs (called SABER in the Air Force), and the Army has made some progress as well.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Therefore, DoD sustainable proponents have brokered this waiver with USGBC, allowing DoD to continue to utilize LEED without compromising data. kWh, therms or ccf, gallons), cost per month for each energy source for the duration of the Lease, including a limited license to use the Landlord’s data for nonpecuniary purposes.

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

The 203 page document available from the ICC for sale to the public, click here for a free read only copy of the 2018 IgCC , is an entirely new standard and bears little, if any relationship to earlier IgCC versions. On the very first page of the site sustainability provisions, sec 501.3.1.2 The 2018 IgCC applies to “1.

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