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ICC 700 Residential Green Certifications Will More Than Double in 2014

Green Building Law Update

As the residential green code is on the cusp of eclipsing 30,000 certifications, more than a dozen governments across the country are evaluating adopting mandates or incentives tied to ICC 700. In 2007, National Association of Home Builders and the International Code Council partnered to establish this residential green building code.

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Residential Green Building Increasingly Incentivized with Property Tax Credits

Green Building Law Update

Recognizing that while commercial construction is increasing building green, but that green residential construction lags in market share, local governments are increasingly looking to enact voluntary incentives to drive residential green building.

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McGraw-Hill: Arizona Construction Economic Outlook Highlights

Carol Hagen

The only sluggish markets forecasted with negative growth are highway and multi-residential. While this remains well off the highs of 2006 with over $24 million the forecast brought smiles to the audience with a promise of recovery in Arizona dramatically outpacing the United States as a whole.

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Home Building Accounts for Nearly 3% of U.S. Labor Force

Pro Builder

million of those in the residential sector, according to the National Association of Home Builders. employed civilian labor force, residential construction workers accounted for 2.8% California, the country’s most populous state, also posts the largest share of residential construction workers at 3.3% Compared to the U.S.

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Shortages and Booming Builder Activity Pushes up OSB Prices

Pro Builder

While OSB has been used more heavily than plywood in residential construction due to the price of plywood, plywood prices plunged in the last month. The engineered-wood product is at a premium to southern yellow pine plywood for the first time since 2006, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Paul Quinn. "We

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Green Building Code Proposed in Washington DC is a National Model

Green Building Law Update

DC is proposing to adopt its first Green Construction Code, which would be mandatory for all commercial projects greater than 10,000 square feet and all multi-family residential construction four stories or larger. The Green Code would apply to new construction and major renovations. LEED at a Certified level or higher, or. ASHRAE 189.1-2011

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

Of course development of SITES was a collaborative effort by the developers beginning in 2006 except for when in 2013, in an all-out brawl ASLA filed a lawsuit over the ownership of the trademark for the SITES against the Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center. All credits are optional but not all will apply to every project.

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