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I had a conversation with Jerry Yudelson last week, six weeks after he became the President of the Green Building Initiative, the non profit with the rights to distribute Green Globes in the United States. Jerry is known to many in the green building world. we have certified less than one percent of them as green.
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Italian Colors Restaurant decided in 2013, “the overarching principle that arbitration is a matter of contract. Arbitration is particularly wide spread in green building and has had the impact of so few green building disputes ever reaching a courtroom. Even the LEED Green Building Certification Inc.
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Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating system. Green Building Council that the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2014, in “compliance with rules of the House of Representatives and Senate regarding earmarks and congressionally directed spending items” provides, in the compilation of.
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Green Building Council LEED Platinum Certification and is scheduled to be completed August 2013. Located on a 3.3-acre acre site within the UCSD School of Medicine campus, the 196,000-sq.ft. facility, which is part of an ongoing expansion at the campus, is being built to achieve U.S. read more.
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using the existing 2005 standard) Phase I assessment is a prerequisite to LEED for Schools certification and that 2005 standard is tied to credits in other LEED rating systems. The August 15, 2013 proposed rule came apart at the seams when EPA received huge numbers of adverse comments. the Superfund law). An ASTM E1527-05 (i.e.,
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