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New Green Building Tax Credit is a Progressive Effort

Green Building Law Update

At a time when the building industry is principally concerned with the impact of COVID-19 and the luster is off green building, the Montgomery County Council last Tuesday unanimously approved legislation “to accelerate the construction of highly energy efficient buildings and green retrofitting of existing buildings.”.

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Bird Friendly Building now the Law in Howard County

Green Building Law Update

Howard County has since 2008 been one of a limited number of jurisdictions across the country with a mandatory LEED green building law for private buildings. So yes, it is an unintended consequence of LEED green building that creates the solution to this environmental issue that it arguably contributed to.

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Two New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19

Green Building Law Update

America is reopening including physically opening its buildings and the U.S. Green Building Council has announced that LEED will play a role in confronting risk in the post coronavirus pandemic era. creating a re-occupancy assessment and requirements for an operations plan and the drafting of a management and operations plan.

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

Task Group, after more than a year of work, has balloted a draft revised standard and results are expected as early as next week. 9601) and petroleum products.” The ASTM E50.02

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

The Green Business Certification Inc.’s Much more than only anticipating weather extremes, in the draft document expected to be approved in the coming days, RELi 2.0 addresses the issue differently, when it prescribes, “building on green field sites below the 500 year floodplain is not permitted.”. The launch of RELi 2.0

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Four New LEED Pilot Credits Respond to COVID-19

Green Building Law Update

Green Building Council has now added two additional Pilot Credits responding to the novel coronavirus. America is reopening including physically opening its buildings and the U.S. Green Building Council has announced that LEED will play a role in confronting risk in the coronavirus pandemic era.

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2015 IgCC Has Been Approved

Green Building Law Update

On November 14, the International Code Council announced that the 2015 version of the International Green Construction Code had been approved. The 2015 IgCC creates a regulatory framework for new and existing buildings, establishing minimum green building requirements for buildings and complementing voluntary rating systems, like LEED.

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