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Less than 20% of Green Building Contracts Properly Drafted

Green Building Law Update

In a recent review of contracts involving green building construction projects, less than 20% had properly drafted provisions addressing green building matters. The methodology was admittedly unscientific, if only in that the sample was too small given the large number of sustainable building being erected across the country.

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A Day in the Life of a Green Building Attorney

Green Building Law Update

My practice is almost exclusively sustainability including green building law, so a good response may be to look at a typical day. Responding to consultant email and draft report of Phase II environmental site assessment. Reviewing and approving quotes in draft third party journal article on defects in green building contracts.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

Green Building Law Update

It is now common that snow removal businesses market their services to building owners by offering a draft hardscape plan and then services that are LEED ready. A great example is snow removal.

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Arbitration including Religious Arbitration in Green Building Contracts

Green Building Law Update

There is little question that a properly drafted provision in a contract requiring arbitration is enforceable. The annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is happening this week in Washington DC. I hope to see you in DC this week. The Supreme Court, in American Express v.

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Vicki Worden on the New Green Globes and Her Commitment to the Mission

Green Building Law Update

Which translates into her “desire to drive positive change in the sustainability arena,” throughout her “10 years of consulting around facilitating dialogue, education, and improved standards in green building, parking industry, mattress industry, and as a consultant to ICC in solar and rainwater harvesting, just to name a few.”.

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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

The 113 page draft order found that under existing net metering rates other ratepayers were subsidizing net metering customers (e.g., 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.

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Construction Marketing Secret: Architecture Billings a Leading Indicator of Construction

Construction Marketing

Although decisions to build nonresidential structures are made by hundreds of thousands of private businesses, nonprofit institutions, and government agencies, the first comprehensive indication of planned development typically shows up on an architect’s drafting board. He has a M.S.