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Apply to be a Member of the ASHRAE Committee for Standard 189.1

Green Building Law Update

Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America, that is also the owner or more green building and more LEED certified building than anyone else, uses a variant of ASHRAE 189.1-2009. Since 2013, the Department of Defense has used UFC 1-200-02 High Performance And Sustainable Building Requirement. ASHRAE 189.1

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Deadline to Propose Changes to National Green Building Standard

Green Building Law Update

Development of the 2018 version of the National Green Building Standard (NGBS) is now underway. The 2018 version of the NGBS will be the fourth iteration of this national residential standard. Appreciate that the International Green Construction Code incorporates the NGBS as an alternative compliance path.

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Resilience is the Future of Real Estate and USGBC Spells it RELi

Green Building Law Update

offers the most comprehensive certification available anywhere for environmentally and socially resilient design. In 2018, the LEED Steering Committee also synthesized the LEED Resilient Design pilot credits with RELi’s Hazard Mitigation and Adaptation credits. It’s a shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope.

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Rad Projects of 2018

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After a year like 2018, all we can really say is thank you. Here’s a shout-out to just some of the work we completed together in 2018. Let’s celebrate some of our clients that really took their commitment to high performance buildings to a new level in 2018! Certification: LEED CS v2009 Platinum.

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An SBA Public Service Announcement: If You See Something, Say Something

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

The Area Office notified a Sanford representative of the protest and requested that, within three business days, the company provide certain financial information for the five previously completed fiscal years preceding Sanford’s self-certification for the subject procurement.

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Modern Slavery Exists and We Must Stop It Now

Green Building Law Update

Moreover, the new Standard will have direct application with the enactment of the Commonwealth of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act , which was introduced to the Australian Parliament at the end of June, and follows enactment of the New South Wales Government’s Modern Slavery Act 2018. These modern enactments by government are only a small step.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An Louisiana, no. million over the next five years. territories.