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Maryland Reverting to Certifiable In Lieu of Certified Green Building

Green Building Law Update

In response to an act of the Maryland legislature in 2018, the state is proposing a watershed revamp of its current mandatory green building requirements for new public school buildings. Or in the alternative, the Maryland Green Building Council finds a third party opinion (i.e., The public is being invited to comment on the proposal.

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Laying a Solid Foundation with BIM

Construction Business Owner

One such contractor, Schuster Concrete Construction, is a full-service, ready-mixed concrete supplier and concrete contracting company, headquartered in Maryland. For this reason, concrete contractors stand to benefit considerably from implementing a building information modeling (BIM) solution in their companies.

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All Solar Panels are Pervious in Maryland

Green Building Law Update

By statute all solar panels are pervious in Maryland. Of course that doesn’t mean that rain actually passes through the solar panels or that in Maryland the panels are constructed to be any more permeable than elsewhere. Unfortunately, the law to date has had little, if any, effect in Maryland.

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Litigation Over First Ever LEED Platinum Building Tarnishes Green Building

Green Building Law Update

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation v. Weyerhaeuser Company arose from the construction in 1999 of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland. ” The Bay Foundation initiated this case in state court on December 3, 2010 (i.e., The complaint focused on the deterioration of the Parallams.

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Lawsuit over First LEED Platinum Building is Over

Green Building Law Update

With an Order Of Judgment, in favor of Permapost Products Company against Weyerhaeuser Company filed on November 17, 2015, resolving the final third party claims, the more than 15 year old disputes and differences over the construction of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center, in Annapolis, Maryland, are over.

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You Can’t Treat Construction Claims Like Your Grandkids

Best Practices Construction Law

25, 2018) involved the construction of a biolab facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland. As is typical of a design-build contract, no unit prices for rock excavation were set for because the contractor’s foundation solution is not established at the time of award. Grimberg Co., 58791 (Oct. The contract was a design-build contract.

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Litigation over First LEED Platinum Building Comes to an End

Green Building Law Update

On July 23, 2015, the parties in the lawsuit The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., District Court for Maryland, filed a Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice following a confidential Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release. Weyerhaeuser Company, et al, pending in the U.S.

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