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Water is the Most Important ESG Factor

Green Building Law Update

And just last Wednesday the California Department of Water Resources announced for the first time it is not going to allocate any water next year to local water districts. As weather induced droughts in the U.S. make interstate groundwater disputes increasingly likely in the coming years there are real implications for our future.

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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

Lets Build

A construction quality management plan should be drafted as a standard document, to be applied to all future projects. If it’s a new situation, it may be necessary to devise workarounds to issues as diverse as legal risks, worker training, or cash flow concerns. Creating a plan. The former is clearly preferable to the latter.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Green Building Law Update

From snow removal to legal services and office cleaning to landscaping with literally hundreds of business sectors in between, business not traditionally thought of as being in the construction field or the environmental industrial complex, are profiting by being green and marketing their contribution to LEED credits.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

will help identify and reduce the risk of damage in the event of a natural disaster, economic disruption, resource depletion or other crisis for buildings, homes, neighborhoods and infrastructure. Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0

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PFOA Contamination is Found in 49 States

Green Building Law Update

Troubling to some is that green building programs, including LEED’s Materials & Resources credits do not track or even take into account PFOA. Navy vessels to stain and water repellent fabrics as well as a variety of construction materials. Some suggest the U.S. In the U.S.

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A proposed CSA rule you can’t afford to ignore

FDR Safety

For more than 5 years, the USDOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has been hoping to draft a rule that finalizes its multi-year overhaul of the government’s commercial truck and bus enforcement program, and now it has a proposed rule on the table.

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Those items proved valuable resources for conducting his new duties—so valuable that his previous employer sued for violation of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and for illegal use of trade secrets. A lack of resources necessary to enforce the agreements due to the impact the pandemic has had on the employer's business.