Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

And while the AIA documents mandated arbitration as the exclusive form of binding dispute resolution for well over 100 years, the current form of documents including the new Sustainable Projects documents, contain a ‘check the box’ where the parties choose between arbitration, litigation or other agreed process.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 18, 2016

My practice is almost exclusively sustainability including green building law, so a good response may be to look at a typical day. Telephone call with client and others including local counsel re application of DC mandatory green building law related to shared photovoltaic panel and vegetated green roof.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Trillion reported their environmental, social and governance information to Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). A relative newcomer, the GRESB real estate assessment is becoming recognized as the global standard for portfolio level sustainability reporting in the real estate sector. REITs in total participated.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The USGBC’s annual Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Washington, DC wrapped up last Friday and the question I have most been asked about Greenbuild is, “what was the highlight?”. My response, Greenbuild is “the” target rich environment for green building people. Arguably, that is where the action was. I will see you in LA.

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FDR Safety

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I recently attended the 2 nd Annual Process Safety Summit in Washington DC on Oct 15-16, 2019. He has a strong interest in lean manufacturing and its relationship to safety and in sustainability, and is recognized internationally for his expertise in machine guarding.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA, LEED® AP BD+C, has accepted a two-year consulting position with the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. Her new position, which begins March 1, will focus on increasing the AIA's impact on sustainability across the profession. Louis-based architect will continue consulting at HOK. read more.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 17, 2013

However, allowing a developer the option of selecting among alternative compliance paths for achieving green building, here in Dallas, in Washington DC and Baltimore, may well portend the future of a sustainable built environment. Dallas Green IGCC LEED Local Government building'

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BD+C

MAY 23, 2023

Hord Coplan Macht names Ilijana Soldan as Sustainability Manager Hord Coplan Macht, Baltimore, MD., has promoted Ilijana Soldan, AIA, LEED AP, EcoDistricts, NCARB, to Sustainability Manager. rcassidy Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:29 HORD COPLAN MACHT Research-based designer will lead Sustainability Action Team and the firm's green initiatives.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One of those snow removal businesses in the Washington DC area is a landscaper in the warm weather months and Inside Out is the first to offer environmentally preferred solar (electric) powered landscaping equipment. A great example is snow removal.

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BD+C

MAY 16, 2013

Energy-Efficient Design Sustainable Design and Construction Building Owner Engineers Energy Efficiency'

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Although there is little if any chance that the bill will become law given the current politics in Washington, DC, the bill’s passage in the House Committee highlights that issues of ESG disclosures continuing to be pressing. But again, there is no realistic scenario under which this becomes law. The failure of H.R.4329,

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Contractor Magazine

JULY 22, 2014

Why Minooka, Illinois, I thought, as I prepared to take a tour of the Grainger Distribution Center last week. Having moved from its Niles, Ill, location, there were good reasons.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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. In some of those instances, the parties used an AIA Contract Documents form (the wrong form) but not a Sustainable Project form.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 4, 2014

And we know they won’t be run from Washington DC. Demand Response Electric Power Supply Association FERC Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability' What we do know is that Demand Response programs will continue across the country. Photo credit: © TebNad/iStockphoto.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 4, 2014

And we know they won’t be run from Washington DC. Demand Response Electric Power Supply Association FERC Kaplow LEED Stuart Kaplow Sustainability' What we do know is that Demand Response programs will continue across the country. Photo credit: © TebNad/iStockphoto.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Bob Berkebile , principal of BNIM Architects and winner of this year’s Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership In Sustainability (a founder of AIA’s Committee on the Environment and founding member of USGBC) was in the halls and on stage admonishing us that “we are on the brink of screwing up 3.5 billion years of evolution.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 29, 2023

government officials and industry leaders to discuss digital construction technology’s critical role in building strong and sustainable infrastructure. I talked about the need for a mindset shift – from reactive to proactive – to build more innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable projects. A key takeaway from my time in D.C.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y., The plan featured low-rise, high-density housing and mid-rise apartments for seniors that blend affordable housing with all the social and economic elements needed to establish this successful and sustainable community.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The IgCC contains numerous jurisdictional and project electives that allow adopting jurisdictions and projects to customize code requirements to address local issues and selectively raise sustainability goals. But it is surprising to many that adoption has not been faster and broader.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 18, 2015

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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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 15, 2016

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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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 16, 2016

While there is little hope the FTC will offer positive guidance on organic building materials or cannabis allowing an organic product to claim it is organic, because it is, if you can’t make it to DC on October 20th, watch several panels via webcast. The FTC will post a link on their event page just before the roundtable begins.

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Building Information Management

JULY 30, 2015

Public sector and multi-building facility routinely scope, procure, award, and execute thousands of renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and “minor” new construction projects. Washington, DC: National Technical Information Service. Introduction. Mulcahy, F. Songer, A. & Molenaar, K.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 24, 2016

The Department of Energy says that there are active commercial PACE programs in at least 9 states and DC and enabling laws enacted or programs in development in another 23 states. Department of Energy assures that the earlier expressed concerns were specific to single family home mortgage lending.

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Pro Builder

MAY 23, 2023

Between 2021 and 2022, rents rose 17% in Chicago, 13% in Seattle, and 10% in Washington, DC, Insider reports. cities throughout 2020 and 2021, leading to a drastic increase in the number of empty apartments and forcing landlords to slash rents. Those rising rents aren’t because Americans are moving back to major cities.

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Building Information Management

JULY 30, 2015

Owners and contractors must be capable and willing to collaborate, share information, and know how to create line item unit price cost estimates for renovation, repair, sustainability, maintenance, and construction projects. (Note: An Owners representative can be used vs. direct owner participation. Mulcahy, F. Songer, A.

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Building Information Management

MAY 30, 2013

Washington, DC. Federal Sector Green Buildings High Performance Building / Green Building Trends high performance buildings LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT sustainability The Costs of Sustainability buildings climate change Climate Change Adaptation for Built Infrastructure cost estimating facilities job order contracting JOC'

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 19, 2013

billion and will grow sustainably for the foreseeable future, cumulating in more than $82.1 Jenkins is the author of the Handbook of Airline Economics and previously served as the director of the Aviation Institute at George Washington University in Washington, DC. billion in impact between 2015 and 2025.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The Department of Energy says that there are active commercial (as opposed to residential) PACE programs in at least 9 states and DC and enabling laws enacted or programs in development in another 23 states.

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Building Information Management

JULY 26, 2012

Is there no better way for GSA to meet sustainability requirement than via LEED? Washington, DC 20417. The recently released sustainability and energy “scorecard” by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) demonstrates just how successful GSA has been at reducing costs, improving efficiency and eliminating waste. 7group, LLC.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

“Access to greater amounts of both debt and equity financing, combined with a sustained improvement in the underlying economic fundamentals, means that the opportunities and returns offered in smaller markets are potentially very appealing.”

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Green Home Design Architect

JUNE 5, 2015

Purvis IV (Mike) obtained his Masters degree in Architecture from Catholic University of America in Washington DC. Green Building Council’s national standard for the development of high performance sustainable buildings. PURVIS IV, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP – SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER Samuel M. LEED is the U.S.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 29, 2014

Toyota will construct a new, environmentally sustainable campus facility in Plano, which is expected to take two or more years to construct after groundbreaking in the fall of 2014. Toyota will also continue to maintain offices in the New York City area and Washington, DC. Click this link for more site selection stories on Toyota.

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Natural Building

MAY 30, 2012

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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Construction Marketing

JULY 6, 2010

The latter half of the 1990s was a period of sustained growth in nonresidential construction, followed by the 2000-2003 period, where nonresidential construction was in an extended recession. Diego Saltes is the director of economics and market research at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. He has a M.S.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 20, 2013

“Research already proves that the demands on our water systems, both urban and rural, have never been greater,” said Ed Pinero, chief sustainability officer for Veolia Water. continues to face increased water scarcity, there is mounting concern over the sustainability of our water resources,” said Lall.

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