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Green Building Law Update
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Where is Most Construction Happening in the California: 2024 Overview
Building Radar
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
California is experiencing a construction boom in 2024, driven by substantial investments in infrastructure, renewable energy, and urban development. As the largest state economy in the United States, California is focusing on enhancing its infrastructure to meet the growing demands of its population.
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4 Tips to Help Mitigate Joint-Employer Risks
Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 7, 2016
By now, the employer community is well aware of the wide-ranging implications of Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. , Green JobWorks, LLC , 364 N.L.R.B. 362 N.L.R.B. On August 16, 2016, in Retro Environmental, Inc./Green
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Low Carbon Concrete for the First Time Required by Law
Green Building Law Update
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
Current green building programs actually encourage the use of concrete. The Marin County, California Low Carbon Concrete Code was the first in the nation to address the negative environmental externalities of concrete when it added a mandatory low carbon concrete specification to the Marin County Building Code.
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Could Solyndra Happen To Green Building Policy?
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Solyndra is the solar panel manufacturer in California that qualified for a $535 million federally-backed loan. As I started thinking about the broader implications of the Solyndra collapse, I could not help but draw parallels to a similar federally-funded green project that has not panned out as expected: Destiny USA. It already has.
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The future of infrastructure is green, AECOM exec says
Construction Dive
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Public policy and new tech, including AI, are driving resilience projects in Southern California, said Los Angeles Metro Executive and Strategy + Growth Leader Jill Kurth.
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How to Escape Joint-Employer Status under the NLRA with Concrete Evidence
Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 7, 2016
By now, the employer community is well aware of the wide-ranging implications of Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. , Green JobWorks, LLC , 364 N.L.R.B. 362 N.L.R.B. On August 16, 2016, in Retro Environmental, Inc./Green
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Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted
Green Building Law Update
OCTOBER 2, 2016
BuildingGreen will be hosting a series if meetups at their booth at this is a chance to meet and hangout with other green people. In a recent review of contracts involving green building construction projects, less than 20% had properly drafted provisions addressing green building matters. 1% were pursuing Green Globes.
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120 California is a Model for PACE Loan Reform
Green Building Law Update
JANUARY 29, 2017
California’s statutory changes to its existing residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing program, that became effective January 1, 2017, may be a model for residential PACE programs across the nation. The first residential PACE program started in Berkeley, California in 2007.
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Solar Panels Mandated for Muscle Beach and.
Green Building Law Update
MAY 29, 2016
Santa Monica joins the California cities of Lancaster and Sebastopol which started requiring rooftop solar installations in 2013, and San Francisco which similar law , for building under 10 stories tall, takes effect January 1, 2017. Note, California law already requires most new construction to have 15% of the rooftop “solar ready.”.
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California Tops 2020 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard
Business Facilities
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Read: California Tops 2020 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard at BusinessFacilities.com. Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York round out top 5 states for energy efficiency, Nevada is most improved in annual ACEEE report. .
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Is California Going to Ban Cows in the Name of Climate Change?
Green Building Law Update
AUGUST 21, 2016
So, with targets on the backs of cows, “for dairies, California will aim to reduce methane emissions. One of the many problems with that aim is California dairy cows already “produce low enteric fermentation emissions per gallon of milk“. About half of the emissions from the State’s 5.5 they belch less) when compared to other U.S.
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Swinerton revenue reaches 4-year high
Construction Dive
JUNE 24, 2024
The California builder highlighted its financial performance and outlined steps toward technological innovation and green initiatives in its new sustainability report.
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Net Zero Certification Program Announced by USGBC
Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
And there are ‘real’ definitions in statute, including in California and in legislation pending in Washington DC. Green buildings are the geoengineering solution to many of the environmental issues of the day. USGBC will now be a catalyst for new, cutting edge technologies with the moonshot to net zero buildings.
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ESG is an Opportunity for Commercial Landlords
Green Building Law Update
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Carbon reporting will be required by organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in supplying a product or service in California. LEED, Green Globes and other third party verified green building rating systems provide certainty able to satisfy the E (environmental) in ESG for many organizations.
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Green Building Law Update
JULY 16, 2017
The proposed requirement is a first anywhere except in California where there are only a very few locales with a similar mandate. The ordinance is modeled after similar laws enacted in the California municipalities of Lancaster, Sebastopol, and Santa Monica, and the City of San Francisco.
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Junk Science And Heat Island Effect Revealed at Greenbuild
Green Building Law Update
OCTOBER 5, 2016
BuildingGreen will be hosting a series if meetups at their booth at this is a chance to meet and hangout with other green people. In its adoption process for the upcoming version of Green Globes, the GBC Consensus Committee is proposing removing the urban heat island requirements for other than roof hardscape.
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Blockchain has come to Real Estate
Green Building Law Update
DECEMBER 10, 2017
A California based private company, Propy, contracted with Ukraine’s e-government agency to serve as a duplicate official ledger facilitating the $60,000 Kiev apartment sale in September. And progressive owners of green buildings and the like will all but certainly be at the forefront of this technological revolution.
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Affordable Housing That LEEDs in Being Green and Sustainable
Pro Builder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Affordable Housing That LEEDs in Being Green and Sustainable. Green Building Council in its LEED Homes Awards. Green Building Council, the creators of the LEED green building program, has selected outstanding projects in the affordable dwelling category for the 2020 LEED Homes Awards. Green Projects. Green Design.
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Nation's first retrofitted zero-energy building opens in California
BD+C
MAY 31, 2013
Architects Green Renovation Sustainable Design and Construction Building Owner Sustainable Development Contractors Designers Engineers Facility Managers Office Building Green' Department of Energy’s requirements for a “zero net energy” building. Body Image: read more.
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Massachusetts, California Continue As Energy Efficiency Leaders
Business Facilities
OCTOBER 4, 2018
Read: Massachusetts, California Continue As Energy Efficiency Leaders at BusinessFacilities.com. New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, and South Dakota are most improved states, according to ACEEE's 2018 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
LEED Prerequisite Now Prohibits Smoking Cannabis
Green Building Law Update
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Green Building Council issued a LEED Interpretation in 2018 ruling, “smoking of cannabis is considered a form of smoking for the purposes of both the interior and exterior smoking provisions of the LEED Prerequisite Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control.”. Which second option will result in significant additional first costs.
Volvo Reveals Results of California Hybrid Loader Test
Construction Equipment
JULY 17, 2017
Waste Management tested the unit for six months and hundreds of hours at its Redwood Landfill and Recycling Center, a green waste facility in Novato, Calif., as well as its Moreno Valley, Calif., transfer station.
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How Much Does a Construction Worker Make?
Building Radar
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Reports indicate that construction workers in states with booming construction projects, such as California and Texas, tend to earn more. The demand for green construction techniques is on the rise, with projects increasingly focused on sustainability.
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Massachusetts tops California as most energy-efficient state
Contractor Magazine
OCTOBER 22, 2014
Governors and lawmakers in state capitals across the nation continue to take major steps to lower energy costs, reduce pollution, and save consumers money by increasing their states'' energy efficiency, according to the findings of the 8th edition of the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient (..)
HUD Adopts 2009 IECC (Not the 2012 or 2015 version) and Why You Care
Green Building Law Update
JUNE 6, 2015
You care because this new minimum standard for energy efficiency in housing is widely seen as a benchmark driving green building and impacting significantly more units than LEED. 2007, including, for example, the Title 24 California Energy Code in California, Focus on Energy in Wisconsin. And the 2015 IECC in Maryland.
Straw Bale Houses in Southern California
Natural Building
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Rebecca Tasker, with a crew of apprentices, is building two straw bale houses near Escondido, California. About sixty times more carbon is sequestered in a bale than is emitted in the production of the materials,” said Tasker. “For a long time the green energy has focused on how much is produced after the house is built.
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Green Development & Sustainability: Letting The Sunshine In
Business Facilities
APRIL 22, 2019
Read: Green Development & Sustainability: Letting The Sunshine In at BusinessFacilities.com. As states are racing to be among the leaders powered 100-percent by renewable energy, industrial giants like Samsung are pledging to join them in adopting this gold standard for sustainability at their manufacturing plants.
California Keeps Crown As King Of Solar Power
Business Facilities
JULY 21, 2017
California retains its crown as the nation's king of solar power: The Golden State was the top-ranked state in all three solar power categories in Business Facilities' 13th Annual Rankings Report. Read: California Keeps Crown As King Of Solar Power.
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68 The largest student housing development in the country breaks ground
BD+C
MARCH 6, 2019
26 the University of California, Davis officially broke ground for The Green at West Village, a campus apartment project that is currently the largest student housing development in the country.
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95 Solar Panels Mandated for Muscle Beach and.
Green Building Law Update
MAY 29, 2016
Santa Monica joins the California cities of Lancaster and Sebastopol which started requiring rooftop solar installations in 2013, and San Francisco which similar law , for building under 10 stories tall, takes effect January 1, 2017. Note, California law already requires most new construction to have 15% of the rooftop “solar ready.”.
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All-Electric Commercial Zero-Turn Mowers Head for Southern California
Green Industry Professionals
MARCH 13, 2019
With 10 years of electric mower experience, Mean Green is now part of a commercial electric lawn and garden exchange program.
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80 FTC Order Restricts use of “All Natural”
Green Building Law Update
JANUARY 1, 2017
The Federal Trade Commission issued a summary decision against California Naturel, Inc., The FTC’s Green Guides do not provide guidance on the term “natural.” Other than adding the disclaimer, California Naturel has not changed the representations challenged in the complaint.
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E-Cigarettes will be Prohibited in Future LEED Buildings
Green Building Law Update
JULY 2, 2014
Green Building Council released a change to LEED classifying electronic cigarettes as a form of tobacco smoking for the purposes of the smoking prohibitions of the LEED Environmental Quality Prerequisite 2, Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control, which is also applicable to LEED v4. Glantz, SA; December 2013; University of California.
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Business Facilities
JANUARY 2, 2019
A cybersecurity labor market survey reveals an alarming gap between the number of job openings and the number of qualified applicants to fill these positions in California. Read: California: Building A Supply Chain For Cyber Skills at BusinessFacilities.com.
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How California is Fighting Fire.With Fire
Green Industry Professionals
AUGUST 19, 2019
The concept of controlled burns isn't new but California is using prescribed fires and thinning to a tactic called SPLAT to help prevent catastrophic fires by lighting smaller fires
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Green Building Law Update
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
This law firm has worked with businesses, non real estate and real estate alike, in their disclosures required by the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 of their “efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from [their] direct supply chain for tangible goods offered for sale.”
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120 Illinois Was Tops For Green Building In 2018
Business Facilities
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Green Building Council’s annual Top 10 States for LEED Green Building ranking. Read: Illinois Was Tops For Green Building In 2018 at BusinessFacilities.com. Massachusetts and Washington earned the second and third spots in the U.S.
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Lawsuit Over LEED Documentation
Green Building Law Update
JULY 27, 2014
A case filed last week in a California court is a prime example of the importance of contract documents in a LEED project. Kaplow LEED LEED documents Stuart Kaplow green building law' Earlier this year the City of Palo Alto gave notice firing Flintco Pacific, Inc., yes, the general contractor sued the City) in Flintco Pacific, Inc.
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Caltrans Repaves Highway with 100% Recycled Asphalt and Plastic Bottles
Construction Junkie
AUGUST 12, 2020
A new process being tested in California is showing promising results by using cold in-place asphalt and recycled plastic bottles. Developed by TechniSoil Industrial in Redding, California, the process has shown promising results in previous tests. For every 1-mile segment of pavement, the polymer will recycle 150,000 plastic bottles.
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Adobe Homes in Southern California
Natural Building
JANUARY 26, 2020
Given the thermal properties of thick adobe wall construction, which allows for less use of energy for cooling and heating, adobe builders were creating environmentally friendly “green” homes well before there was a call for such a thing. The post Adobe Homes in Southern California appeared first on Natural Building Blog.
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PILE LOAD CAPACITY
The Constructor
MARCH 17, 2012
EFFECT OF WATER TABLE ON SAFE BEARING CAPACITY OF SOIL LOAD ON PILES LOAD BEARING MASONRY What is the relation between lab/field california bearing ratio test (CBR) and the bearing capacity of soil? Related posts: Advantages of Precast pile foundation over Cast-in-situ pile foundations?
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230 The Last Straw for a Rational Environmental Policy?
Green Building Law Update
APRIL 22, 2018
In response to the current hue and cry over one of the oldest eating utensils, the California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both have gone as far as enacting “straws on request” laws and Manhattan Beach has a law banning all disposable plastics. In 1970 when Earth Day was created U.S. rivers were on fire and smog choked our cities.
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179 Retailers Pay Millions for Hazardous Waste Violations
Green Building Law Update
JUNE 4, 2017
In the latest case on April 27, 2017, the Riverside County, California District Attorney along with 34 District Attorney’s Offices and two City Attorney’s Offices across California, announced in a press release that Superior Court Judge Bryan F. This is not a California only issue. Foster ordered Ohio based Big Lots Stores, Inc.,
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