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Sustainability at Queen’s University in Canada

Natural Building

Sustainability Professor, Steven Moore, wants Queen’s University in Ontario Canada to be a moral and sustainable leader through their actions. Moore models sustainability through his own lifestyle, living in an earth-sheltered house in Tamworth, facing the Salmon River. Moore said Queen’s should create more gardens on campus.

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A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures

Green Building Law Update

We work regularly with public companies and others in response to the rapid rise in the adoption of ESG, assisting businesses to try to enhance performance, pursue sustainable objectives, or both. In 2021, EU based regulators began to fill the ESG disclosure void, but with the change in political climate in the U.S., If each country (.

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Electric fleet challenges and considerations

CK Power

Regulations are tightening. Some end customers are prioritizing environmental sustainability when evaluating contractors or products. Implementing gensets and EVs across your fleet should make your operation emissions regulation-proof for years. Will you need your charging equipment to be mobile?

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

Job Order Contracting

It provides a capacity for on-demand construction via an on-call contractor that can be mobilized, working in a much shorter period, and far more efficiently than traditional project delivery methods. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Volume I, Subpart 16.5, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), 36 Volume I, Subpart 2.1,

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How To Manage VOCs In Construction

Construction Marketing

ppm for mobile homes. In some cases, the product may bear an environment-friendly certification or other forms of acknowledgment for being sustainable. Check the city for specific regulations in getting rid of hazardous wastes. When the EPA built its building, it set the Maximum Allowable Air Concentration Standard of <0.20

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More Robust Enforcement of SEC Climate Change Disclosures

Green Building Law Update

Recently The Los Angeles Times reported Exxon Mobil is under investigation by California Attorney General Kamala Harris over claims that the company “lied about climate change risks” in statements the company made to investors. Climate change has become a topic of intense public discussion in recent years.

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Rooftop stormwater management technologies climate change adaptation and resilience

Construction Specifier

There are growing interests in using green roofs, blue roofs, and blue-green roofs to manage stormwater in urban centers such as Washington DC’s Green Area Ratio (GAR) environmental sustainability zoning regulation, NYC’s Climate Mobilization Act–Local Laws 92 & 94 and San Francisco’s Better Roofs Ordinance.