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Nevada Stops Subsidizing Net Metering

Green Building Law Update

In the final days of 2015, Nevada became the front line in the looming nationwide fight over energy policy when the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada altered rates for net metering impacting homeowners with rooftop photovoltaic panels. And Nevada is not alone, Hawaii cut its net metering rate by half in October.

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Home Builders in Southern Nevada Are Facing Record High Demand

Pro Builder

Home Builders in Southern Nevada Are Facing Record High Demand. Nevada buyers undaunted by rising mortgage rates are putting pressure on local builders to create more housing supply. Home prices are up 27% year-over-year in Southern Nevada to a record high $460,000, but demand for new home construction isn’t slowing.

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Feds Advance Approvals for $2.5B Nevada Transmission Projects

ENR Construction

But White House and legislators punt on more sweeping US transmission upgrade measures as they OK all permits for controversial gas pipeline in deadline-pushed debt ceiling compromise bill now set for House and Senate votes.

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Strategies to Maximize Virtual Collaboration

Construction Business Owner

Join Autodesk, Swinerton, PARIC and OpenSpace to learn about resources and best practices that help construction companies succeed on important items such as inspections, permitting, reporting, bids and submissions with technology. Can’t attend the webinar? Register now and listen later. We’ll send you a link to the playback.

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Energy/Industrial Best Project - Southern Nevada Recycling Center

ENR Construction

the $34-million Southern Nevada Recycling Center located on an 18-acre site in North Las Vegas, Nev., took six months to design, another six months to obtain permits and 12 months to build. As the largest single-stream recycling facility in the U.S.,

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: A Guide to.

Natural Building

Small Cob Buildings without Permits! SO AT LEAST TELL US FOR FREE WHICH STATE IN THE SOUTHWEST MAKES THE LEAST HASSLE FOR A GUY WITH NO MONEY TO PAY FOR PERMITS AND PLANS ETC. Building permit is mandatory. Construction that is done without a permit can result in the city issuing fines to the property owner. Living Walls.

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Building for better fire resilience in WUI zones

Construction Specifier

The Good Haus The Good Haus, a zero net energy (ZNE), near passive, high-performance house in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills (see the section on page 4 titled “Could This Be the Perfect House for Rural California?”) The principles for building for optimal fire resilience are the same in both scenarios.

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