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Home Builders in Southern Nevada Are Facing Record High Demand

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Home Builders in Southern Nevada Are Facing Record High Demand. Nevada buyers undaunted by rising mortgage rates are putting pressure on local builders to create more housing supply. Home prices are up 27% year-over-year in Southern Nevada to a record high $460,000, but demand for new home construction isn’t slowing.

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Feds Advance Approvals for $2.5B Nevada Transmission Projects

ENR Construction

But White House and legislators punt on more sweeping US transmission upgrade measures as they OK all permits for controversial gas pipeline in deadline-pushed debt ceiling compromise bill now set for House and Senate votes.

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Building for better fire resilience in WUI zones

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The Good Haus The Good Haus, a zero net energy (ZNE), near passive, high-performance house in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills (see the section on page 4 titled “Could This Be the Perfect House for Rural California?”) The principles for building for optimal fire resilience are the same in both scenarios.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels. And Nevada is not alone, Hawaii cut its net metering rate by half in October.

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Marijuana Regulation at Work: Your Responsibilities

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With 8 states that have approved the use of recreational marijuana and 18 states permitting the use of medical marijuana, it’s critical for companies operating in these areas to understand their legal responsibilities and how to deal with cannabis use at worksites. California. Massachusetts. Washington. Washington D.C.

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Contractor License Bonds: Everything You Need to Know

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A few examples of obligees include the California Contractors State License Board, the Nevada State Contractors Board, and the Oregon Construction Contractors Board. In Nevada, contractors of all trades are required to hold a bond. The principal is the contractor required to obtain the bond. How much does a license bond cost?

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The Drone Age

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Four of the choices were surrounded by wide-open spaces, as you’d expect them to be: the University of Alaska, the North Dakota Department of Commerce, the state of Nevada and Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast. Should commercial drone flights be permitted before defenses against rogue drones are perfected?