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GRESB Purchased from GBCI in advance of ESG Breakout

Green Building Law Update

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. GRESB data covers US $5.3 trillion (.

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Job Order Contracting – Recommended Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

Conduct a strategic review of your organization’s facilities/infrastructure repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and minor new construction requirements, including a gap analysis of current process and issues and desired outcomes as well as current and required resources. We hope you benefit from the following information.

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How Brexit Will Affect The Construction Industry – Infographics

Lets Build

If the labour force becomes more expensive this has a direct result on project margins, reduces the competition between projects and prevents some businesses from tendering altogether because they cannot earn enough to sustain the project.

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Renewable Energy: The Power Of Change

Business Facilities

To shift to a sustainable trajectory, we need to massively step up investment in clean energy technologies—especially renewables and energy efficiency.”. Being clean and sustainable is not only the right thing to do, it’s just good business,” said Silagy. So, sustainability is a huge part of what makes Florida successful.”.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

The net result is an facilities and infrastructure management sector that is burdened with waste and negatively impacting the organizational mission associated with built structures, the economy, and the environment. Additionally while contracts are initially awarded competitively, change orders are negotiated without competition.

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Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices

Job Order Contracting

JOC is used to execute repair, sustainment, restoration, modernization, and minor new construction projects. d) An indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (task order) contract which provides for the use of negotiated, definitive, bilateral orders (i.e., Applicability. Planning and coordination. (a)

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

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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