Most owner and developers would imagine that the most significant costs of LEED certification are the front-end registration and back-end submittal costs. Are they correct? Depends.
Environmental Building News prepared a primer on the costs of LEED certification for commercial construction. As noted in the article, LEED certification includes various costs that must be considered separately
Whenever a 100-page legislative or legal report is released by an agency, association or group of individuals, the best place to go in the document is the Summary or Findings sections. So, yesterdary, when the USGBC, AIA, SMACNA and other groups issued its 93-pager entitled Using Executive Authority to Achieve Greener Buildings: A Guide for Policymakers
Today’s post is about the Spearin Doctrine, tweeted in less than 140 characters:
US v. Spearin: Owner designs. Contractor builds. Owner accepts. Work sucks. Owner sues. Contractor absolved. Owner loses.
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On Friday, I read a press release by the USGBC and blogged about the new International Green Construction Code (ICCG). In my haste to avoid the traffic from the SEC Basketball Tourney in downtown Nashville, I quickly posted and jumped into my car to escape. With all candor, my post was incomplete . . . I did
I know its late on Friday afternoon. The SEC men’s basketball tourney is a few blocks away. No one wants to talk about green building right now. Most people around here only want to talk about BLUE!
But if I wait unil Monday, then I may forget to share this news and it might be too late!
You don’t have to click too many times through your channels on your television set without finding a reality television show. There is one for finding the right man, losing weight to the extreme, rebuilding a destitute home in five days, and even eating spiders and beetles.
Earlier this week on the
For the next couple of weeks, the only thing you will see on our living room television is the Winter Olympics. Luge…daring!. Freestyle moguls…awesome! Snowboard cross…cool! Figure skating…good time to surf the Internet!
Last night, while watching figure skating surfing the Internet, I stumbled upon this article about the Olympic and Paralympic Village in Vancouver having received the highest certification
CalGreen “California green building code” “Sierra Club” “Natural Resources Defense Council” USGBC “Elaine Hsieh”
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A week does not go by without a friend, colleague, or new acquaintance asking me, "How do you do it all?" The short answer: "It’s tough … very tough … but I have some help. For home and family issues, I have my lovely wife. For unloading the dishwasher, I have my son. For getting out
When Nashville Mayor Karl Dean created the Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental Sustainability, he had lofty goals of making Nashville the greenest city in the Southeast. Indeed, Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey shared a similar commitment to be a green "LEEDer" in the South.
Fast forward to January 2010 … Where are we on