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Cannabis Retail Construction: How to Navigate the Green Rush

HardHatChat

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Between 2018 and 2022, Englewood’s national construction work in the cannabis retail industry grew by 100% and we expect that trajectory to continue as more states legalize recreational marijuana use and cannabis firms expand into new markets. That has been true.

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Green Industry Pros User Agreement

Green Industry Professionals

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

General Notice These are the Terms of Service for 'Green Industry Pros' and for the services available through or at Green Industry Pros (the "Services," or a "Service"). This "Agreement" is a legal agreement between you (an individual) and Green.

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State of the Construction Industry: March Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

MARCH 29, 2018

To get ahead, it’s also important for contractors to keep up with what’s going on throughout the construction industry. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released February employment data, which shows the construction industry added 61,000 net new jobs in February, bringing the industry’s unemployment rate to 7.8

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My Green Building Exit Memo

Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It''s not because green building doesn''t interest me any more. I started this blog because I was excited about the green building movement. I started this blog because I wanted to help design and construction professionals navigate the legal hurdles certain to pop up from the green building movement. An Introduction.

Green

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Presenting At Green Legal Matters This Week in New Orleans

Construction Law Monitor

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Here is a truth: Green Building is not a fad. Between 2005 and 2008, the Green Building Construction industry has grown by 500%, from a $10 billion industry to a $49b industry. We operate two topic-specific blogs on the topic ( Louisiana Green Law and Northwest Green Law ), and I’m a LEED AP.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

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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Destiny USA Reaches the Green Bonds Finish Line

Green Building Law Update

MARCH 22, 2012

I apologize for the recent hiatus here at Green Building Law Update. Now, on to green building legal news. The developer recently revealed the many of the green technologies will not be incorporated as promised. If you want to see what I have been up to, check out ClaimKit ( www.claimkit.com ). million as a penalty.

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A Review of 2023’s Construction Highlights and What to Expect Next: A Summary

Constructlaw

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2023, the construction industry saw significant developments, such as a downward trend in the commercial real estate market, a continued focus on sustainability, and the ongoing impact of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

United States

United States New York Construction Legal

Projecting the future:BIM Focus on Images? Legalities?

Carol Hagen

OCTOBER 14, 2009

It has permeated the construction industry. What makes this of value to the construction industry and IT is: These DLP units use LEDs (they’re Green) . The future issues also center around legality. What are the Best Practices for utilizing BIM to support legal arguments? .

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The Birds: Migratory Bird Treaty Act redux without Tippi Hedren

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a regulation to finally resolve and codify the legal principal that an incidental bird take resulting from an otherwise lawful activity, for example a sparrows flies into a solar panel, is not prohibited under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Three weeks ago the U.S. The decision has been appealed.

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Regulation Legal United States New York

Did You Miss Greenbuild?

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Over the past year, I've been lucky enough to get to know Jeremy Sigmon at the US Green Building Council. It has been a busy year for him with the introduction of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC). I will also be participating in an upcoming green building legal webinar with the ABA Fidelity and Surety Law Committee.

Green

Green Liability Legal Risk

New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

MAY 7, 2017

The new Sustainable Projects Exhibit is a potential game changer that could revitalize the now sluggish if not moribund domestic green building industrial complex, that suffers from the lack of regular involvement of the legal profession, and as I recently wrote the resultant, Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted.

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Documentation AIA Sustainability Contract

Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 19, 2015

The growth since the data gathering for 2011 study has been significant with marijuana legalized for recreational use in four states and medicinal use in 19 states. Although non legal marijuana growing is hard to calculate, the association with high energy use has been accepted for decades.

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Electrical Accounting Colorado Legal

Renewable Energy Claim is Deceptive

Green Building Law Update

MARCH 4, 2018

But it is suggested that the Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides, designed to help marketers avoid making environmental marketing claims that are unfair or deceptive under Section 5 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § Key to the Green Guides are the examples.

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Claims Certification Green Electrical

ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The electric utility monopolies are an industry that doth protest too much, methinks, made wealthy by government regulation, whatever the pendulum swing of that regulation. And there will be other opportunistic industries. banking industry is signaling its willingness to consider ESG when underwriting lending. Already the U.S.

Maryland

Maryland Regulation Electrical Legal

Gotcha: FTC Enforcement of "VOC Free" Claims for Paint

Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Green marketing presents an enormously valuable strategy for increasing brand value – cutting across all sectors. And the new emphasis on building materials and product makeup in LEED v4 will greatly favor environmentally conscious brands and businesses, far beyond LEED’s influence on the real estate industry.

Claims

Claims Green Commissioning Architecture

ESG will be the Environmental Issue of 2022

Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 2, 2022

There has been an abject failure on the part of codes officials not to mention a complete void in leadership by the green building industrial complex, all who are more concerned with the progressive issue of energy reduction than ventilation that today translates directly into human health. yes, this blog will continue).

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Legal Regulation Sustainability Consulting

Organic on the FTC Agenda

Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 16, 2016

If a business makes environmental claims in its ads or on its products or in its building, the Federal government offers guidance through the FTC’s Green Guides. However, the current Green Guides do not include guidance on the term “organic.”. Of course, the Green Guides’ general principles apply to all environmental claims.

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Organization Claims Green Products

FTC To Ramp Up Enforcement of Environmental Claims

Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 22, 2013

“A growing number of consumers are looking to buy green products and companies respond with green marketing. But sometimes what companies think green claims mean and what consumers think they mean are two different things,” Rich said at the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council conference last month.

Claims

Claims Green Commissioning Organization

Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

JULY 25, 2021

million commercial and industrial real estate transactions in the United States each year, so you need to be aware of the revised standard expected to be issued later this year. The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. of this report.

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Site Drafting United States Regulation

Revoking the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Incidental Take Rule, Once Again

Green Building Law Update

JUNE 13, 2021

That rule made changes to the enforcement of the MBTA to decriminalize incidental take of migratory birds and was widely supported by the solar panel industry and wind turbine businesses, with an effective date of February 8. In a parallel but not directly related action, on August 11, 2020, Judge Valerie Caproni, of the U.S.

Electrical

Electrical Regulation Estimating United States

Construction called to perform on net-zero plans

Construction Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The construction industry will be at the centre of developments over the next generation to combat the climate change emergency; that much must now be clear after the COP26 meeting in Glasgow. The prize however is victory in the climate change battle; and along the way a substantial increase in work for the infrastructure industries.

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Cannabis Retail Construction: How to Navigate the Green Rush

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State of the Construction Industry: March Roundup

My Green Building Exit Memo

Presenting At Green Legal Matters This Week in New Orleans

LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Destiny USA Reaches the Green Bonds Finish Line

A Review of 2023’s Construction Highlights and What to Expect Next: A Summary

Projecting the future:BIM Focus on Images? Legalities?

The Birds: Migratory Bird Treaty Act redux without Tippi Hedren

Did You Miss Greenbuild?

New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Indoor Marijuana Growing Accounts for Over 1% of all Electric Consumption in the U.S.

Renewable Energy Claim is Deceptive

ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

Gotcha: FTC Enforcement of "VOC Free" Claims for Paint

ESG will be the Environmental Issue of 2022

Organic on the FTC Agenda

FTC To Ramp Up Enforcement of Environmental Claims

Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Revoking the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Incidental Take Rule, Once Again

Construction called to perform on net-zero plans

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