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LEED is the Tool to Restrict Water Use in This Town

Green Building Law Update

While much attention was given last week to California Governor Jerry Brown’s executive order, in response to that state’s long running drought, seeking to reduce overall water use by 25%, there may be more to be learned from how the small Town of Hampstead in Maryland responded to its own water crisis in 2008.

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Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County

Green Building Law Update

Howard County has since 2008 been one of a limited number of jurisdictions across the country with a mandatory LEED green building law for private buildings. SSpc55 credit , but zealots may have preferred the originally drafted version by the American Bird Conservancy?

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Beane didn’t achieve success by drafting players based on his emotional judgments or media-based hype. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. With the help of a Harvard number cruncher, he developed “sabermetrics,” a method of judging players by on-base percentages.

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Stronger leadership on safety needed at colleges

FDR Safety

A spotlight has been focused on UCLA ever since a horrific lab accident in December 2008 caused the death of a research assistant. ESH staffs rather than the Presidents of colleges and universities draft policies and mission statements. Many colleges have well staffed and competent ESH staffs that seem to be responsible for safety.

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Relationship between the designer and the contractor

Construction Business Owner

Many of the contractors immediately shot down the concept with the age old line of questioning that pertains to the architects’ inability to draft an affordably reproduced plan and a perceived desire to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright on a modest budget. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

In that relatively short time frame I am able to draft an email from 30,000 feet and send it into the ether to any number of project team members. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. Field changes and conditions were scribbled on note pads. November 2009. October 2009.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

In 2015, the Obama Administration announced a new target to reduce Federal government greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2008 levels by 2025.