Green Building Law Update

APRIL 3, 2016

Today is the day to revise your contracts for sustainable projects. These two dramatic changes to LEED have very real potential for increasing risk in green building, but updates are also underway to Green Globes and ASHRAE 189.1 as well as to a host of green codes. With the U.S. LEED has added Integrative Process).

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 10, 2020

The 2020 version of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) is now available for free download and public use. You care about this because the NGBS is the most used green building standard in the United States. And yes, that is more domestic certifications than LEED and Green Globes combined.

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Construction Specifier

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

By Richard Martens Sustainability is a complex topic in all fields; every initiative seeking to improve sustainability brings both improvements and setbacks. Within modern construction, there is an exception to the inherent complexity of sustainability comparisons. Photos courtesy Sto Corp. Construction is no different.

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Pro Builder

APRIL 27, 2022

Longtime Tucson Green Building Pioneer Dies at 88. After a lifetime of contributing to the Tucson home building industry and promoting sustainable building practices, revered developer and industry pioneer John Wesley Miller passed away on April 18, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Green Projects. Sustainability.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 7, 2018

2018 will be a watershed year in the course of green building standards, codes and rating systems. IgCC, ICC 700, Green Globes and. I am optimistic that a global conversation, although centered in the United States, has begun where people are discovering and inventing new ways to build sustainably. and abroad. When the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise. Others collect building data.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

It is surprising to many in the environmental industrial complex that there has been relatively little litigation arising out of green building. There have been only a very modest number of cases commenced in courts across the country involving construction of green buildings. Even the Green Business Certification Inc.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

There is little question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. Arbitration is particularly wide spread in green building and has had the impact of so few green building disputes ever reaching a courtroom. Even the LEED Green Building Certification Inc.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Development of the 2018 version of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) is now underway. Participating in this development process is hugely significant because as of this date there are 98,120 NGBS Green Certified Homes! The 2018 version of the NGBS will be the fourth iteration of this national residential standard.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Baltimore City is poised to adopt a new zoning code that is among the most ''green building friendly'' land use ordinances in the country. A green building friendly zoning ordinance is significant when so many local codes including land use ordinances across the country stand in the way of sustainability efforts.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In a conversation I had with Barry Giles, a true green building pioneer, in 2018, he said, “to truly regard sustainable buildings in a holistic manner, it’s our obligation to start with the supply chain serving the construction industry.”. The largest study of the typology of modern slavery in the U.S.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I had an opportunity some days ago to speak at length with Vicki Worden, the Executive Director of Green Building Initiative. Readers of this blog will be interested in what this thought leader in the green building movement has to say. All of which gives her street cred in the green building industrial complex.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

As I thought about the green building policy mess of 2012, I couldn't help but draw comparisons to Game of Thrones. This was supposed to be the year of the USGBC's new green building rating system, LEED 2012. This side prefers the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certification. The Assault on Chemicals of Concern.

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Recently, HPC has added a fourth component: a marketplace for goods and services that builders and consumers can access directly from the website via Rise , an online source for sustainable products and for information about sustainable building practices. A Home for the Ages: Sustainability, Health, and Attainability in One.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 but more than a year later, it has not been adopted anywhere. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. for the Design of High Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 26, 2019

The last review, in 2012, shook the green building industrial complex to its foundations, when it not only recommended LEED (that had previously been the sole option), but also recommended Green Globes. GSA is now undertaking the next 5 year review and last week released a draft report of its recommendations. LEED, version 4.0.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The Green Business Certification Inc.’s 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.”. The launch of RELi 2.0

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 3, 2015

GBCI, formerly known as the Green Building Certification Institute, has changed its name to Green Business Certification Inc. Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating System. “a structure that has achieved, as certified by Green Business Certification Inc.,

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Savvy business people are finding opportunities to profit in matters ancillary to green building, including opportunities advantaged by providing services that contribute to LEED credits. LEED green business' A great example is snow removal. There are very real opportunities to have a role in the more than 1.7

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The 2018 International Green Construction Code was released on November 8, 2018 by the U.S. Green Building Council , International Code Council , ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society. the IgCC and the LEED green building program,” the ICC was only responsible for Chapter 1, Scope and Administration of the 2018 IgCC.

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Construction Marketing

MARCH 28, 2022

As people become more aware of the harm and dangers caused by climate change, businesses and individuals alike are believed to be starting to make the switch to sustainable practices. Are you looking for different means to partake in the ongoing green revolution ? You can do your part by designing an energy-efficient building.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Green Building Council was no doubt the biggest story at Greenbuild 2017 in Boston last week. And that is saying a lot because Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building and there was much to be excited about in the aisles of the expo floor. by the U.S.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. Living Walls.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 5, 2021

in a state where the majority of rain in cities and towns flows into storm drains dumping into the Pacific Ocean), including a draft emergency regulation that among other things makes washing a car without a shut-off nozzle punishable by a fine. This looming water curb and excessively severe public policy (. yes, this blog will continue).

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Natural Building

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. jonwilson said.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 22, 2014

Against a backdrop in early 2014 where by many measures environmental progress in business appears to have plateaued, Environmental Product Declarations are among the hottest topics in sustainability. EPA’s interest comes from several market places, such as in the raw material supply chain, in product development and green procurement.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 20, 2020

GRESB was established in 2009 as the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark by three pension funds who wanted to assess and benchmark the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and other related performance of real assets, providing standardized data to capital markets.

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Green Building Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2012

The Department of Energy and several interesting partners (both BOMA and NRDC, for example) have launched a website consolidating green lease resources. Much is made of green leases, and the "split incentive problem" that is seen as a barrier to green building, and which green leases are designed to address.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade. Substantively the case suggests there is no more liability arising from green building versus other construction, but that the liability is different.

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Green Building Law Update

AUGUST 8, 2015

SmithGroup’s ‘green’ design called for exposed structural wood members outside the envelope of the Merrill Center, including some that penetrated the building’s façade. to design the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, CBF’s headquarters, on the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 5, 2015

With the Town water system running out of water, the Town created a Groundwater Conservation District “encouraging environmentally sensitive and sustainable ‘green’ design and construction methods, minimizing impervious surface, maximizing groundwater recharge and protecting the aquifer.”

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Pro Builder

JANUARY 7, 2021

SEEFAR's Jim Nostedt shares how an appraisal/analysis called Total Cost of Building Ownership reveals the true cost of building and operating a sustainable building. Appraisers have a green appraisal guide, but it does not monetize the green features. Sustainability. Code-Built Homes on Price. Thu, 01/07/2021 - 15:19.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 24, 2016

PACE loans can provide the capital to green the existing building stock. This change in Federal policy can jumpstart green building in the U.S. There will be a lot of competition in this space and well drafted local government legislation will be key to the efficacy of PACE programs.

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Natural Building

MAY 19, 2007

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly Hart has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life.

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Fins Architecture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Posted by fins | Filed under architectural renderings | Sep 27, 2010 | Tags: parker school rough drafts , sketchup renderings | No Comments. These rough drafts were prepared using Sketchup modeling software. green building consultation. sato residence is featured in grand green homes tour. sustainable design.

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Stok

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

According to the Cover Text , a document produced by the COP Egyptian Presidency which summarizes negotiation outcomes, the parties agreed to formalize Loss and Damage and begin to draft provisions which route funds from developed countries to developing nations.

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