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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

Note that this occurred in the same week that Congress extended the 30% federal investment credit for solar through 2021, which in large measure benefits the same banks and corporate investors. And Nevada is not alone, Hawaii cut its net metering rate by half in October.

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Pittsburgh is Booming Despite High Lumber Costs and Labor Shortage

Pro Builder

Thu, 07/08/2021 - 12:00. The number of building permits issued for new home construction in the six-county area around Pittsburgh jumped 37% through May of this year, according to a report by Tall Timber Group, a Ross Township-based construction industry consulting firm. Lynn Foltz, a Washington County developer and builder.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

Wed, 12/15/2021 - 17:31. Ivory Homes in Salt Lake City is Pro Builder's 2021 Builder of the Year. 1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda.

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BIM at LOD400: Why Level of Development 400 matters for design and virtual construction

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This exceeds the LOD of a BIM element universally accepted by the design industry as acceptable for permit-level documents. A new high rise utilizes concrete shear walls as the lateral load-resisting system, arranged around the elevator bank in the central core of the building. The modeled elements are ready to be fabricated.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Additionally, by October 1, 2021, the owner of a building that has at least 150,000 square feet of office space must provide recycling receptacles for the collection of recyclable materials and for the removal of specified materials deposited into the recycling receptacles so that the materials can be further recycled.

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Electrical Component Shortage Requires Action

Pro Builder

Shortages of single-phase transformers and other components are preventing local jurisdictions from issuing building permits because there is no way to provide power to new homes. Orders for transformers and other switchgear that previously took two to four months to fill are now taking more than a year.

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NFPA 285 engineering judgments

Construction Specifier

Banks and Jeffrey H. The 2021 IBC regulates the fire safety of exterior walls containing combustible claddings, WRBs and foam plastic insulation in Chapter 14, “Exterior Walls” and Chapter 26, “Plastic.”. that permit the use of engineering analysis to determine fire resistance. Greenwald, P.E., Figure 1 National wall assembly.