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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 By selectively bundling existing sustainable and regenerative guidelines with RELi’s groundbreaking credits for emergency preparedness, adaptation, and community vitality, RELi 2.0

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Small Cob.

Natural Building

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 has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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SEC Regulation: What to Expect & How to Prepare for Climate Rules

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Comments: This aspect of the proposed SEC rules is fully aligned with the widely recognized and broadly accepted recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), as well as the draft guidelines published by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in March 2022.

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The good news is that a recently proposed set of guidelines is being embraced as the starting point for negotiations between international players in the Arctic development sweepstakes. The protocol was immediately endorsed by Guggenheim Partners, which helped to draft it.

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Digital Builder Ep 15: Why Global Data Standards are the Future of Collaboration

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As the volume of project data continues to grow , and global collaboration in the AEC industry becomes increasingly common, it’s more important than ever that the processes we have are scalable and sustainable. . To put it another way, construction professionals need to speak the same language. Why are Global Data Standards Important?

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EPA Seeks Comment on Ecolabels and Product Environmental Performance Standards thru February 25th

Green Building Law Update

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. This blog post is the first of several over the coming weeks about EPDs. it sure sounds like an EPD) the environmental community should listen.

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5 Benefits of a Carbon Fiber Hard Hat

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Carbon fiber polymer has all the qualities that can protect the lives of thousands and thousands of construction workers by preventing injuries that can be sustained to the head. The ANSI (American National Standard Institute) follows the safety guidelines written and drafted by ISEA. 2014 are as follows: 1.)

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