2016 Drafting Regulation 
Green Building Law Update
JULY 19, 2020
The bird-friendly design standards that the Director adopts by regulation and that are equivalent to Pilot Credit #55. USGBC made substantive changes to the credit in 2015 and in 2016 and again in 2019 resulting in the current LEED v 4.1
Green Building Law Update
JUNE 12, 2016
The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.
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Green Building Law Update
JUNE 12, 2016
The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.
FDR Safety
APRIL 27, 2017
1, 2016, and the other from February 15, 2017. OSHA wants to hear from the public on draft Process Safety Management guidance documents. Congress also rolled back another regulation that would have required companies bidding for federal contracts to disclose violations of health and safety laws, and other labor laws.
Green Building Law Update
DECEMBER 3, 2017
The European Union has gone in another direction with the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation , applicable as of May 2018, updating and modernizing the principles enshrined in the 1995 Data Protection Directive which guarantee individual privacy rights in one’s personal data including “the right to be forgotten.”
Green Building Law Update
JUNE 25, 2017
However, as I wrote in this blog on July 24, 2016, HUD Jumpstarted Financing For Homes , reversing their previous position and now widely allowing residential PACE loans on top of FHA and VA loans (but still not on top of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans). Draft new and improved attorney prepared loan documents that work to ‘sell’ PACE.
Green Building Law Update
DECEMBER 1, 2019
The drafting process was widely criticized resulting in a document that has never been enacted anywhere, and likely should not ever be adopted as code. Many code officials have concluded the 2018 IgCC is not a good building code, green or otherwise. It has been widely characterized as an unbuildable code. Sec 901.4.1.4.
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