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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Green Building Law Update

From snow removal to legal services and office cleaning to landscaping with literally hundreds of business sectors in between, business not traditionally thought of as being in the construction field or the environmental industrial complex, are profiting by being green and marketing their contribution to LEED credits.

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The New and Improved 2020 ICC 700 National Green Building Standard

Green Building Law Update

Moreover, the NGBS is a uniquely drafted “standard” in that it can be used by any builder for their individual project as a rating system (including obtaining third party certification), or may be adopted by a local government as a residential green building code. The 2020 NGBS was ANSI approved earlier this year.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

When I started working in the industry we still used payphones to call the office from the “field” We used paper estimates, a calculator and copy machines. 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 2009.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Matthew Keck, BIM Manager at Metromont 

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Construction is filled with complex processes requiring the collaboration of multiple teams—including office, engineering, and trades. In 2009, we took a job that was supposed to take about nine months, and we ended up turning it into two years. It was right there during the downturn of the economy.

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2018 IgCC is Not in Use Anywhere. A Detailed Analysis of Why?

Green Building Law Update

Which at first blush might appear to not necessarily a bad thing, given that the IgCC, first published in 2009, has only been adopted, in whole, but mostly in part, in maybe 17 jurisdictions, out of the more than 4,400 code adopting jurisdictions across the U.S., so there was room for wider adoption of a 2018 IgCC. But it is sec 801.4.1.1.1

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

” The Northern Sea Route referenced by Lavrov already is getting crowded: in 2009, only five cargo ships went through the Russian zone in the Arctic, according to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations; by 2013, that figured climbed to 71. The protocol was immediately endorsed by Guggenheim Partners, which helped to draft it.

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2018 IgCC – A Fast Paced Deep Dive

Green Building Law Update

Which is not necessarily a bad thing, given that the IgCC, first published in 2009, has only been adopted, in whole, but mostly in part, in maybe 17 jurisdictions, out of the more than 4,400 code adopting jurisdictions across the U.S. is an entirely new standard and bears little, if any relationship to earlier IgCC versions.

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