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The Builders' Association of the Twin Cities has sued the Minnesota GreenStar certification program over rights to green building guidelines the trade group helped develop....
As an attorney, I tend to think the contract is the key element to a successful construction project. Upon further review, I am convinced that to successfully manage a LEED project, an owner needs......
A downsized surveyor retrained for the green job market, earned nine certifications, then sent out hundreds of resumes -- without success. Other recent green job training grads report trouble......
In the same way that LEED has transformed architectural design to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean construction is emerging as the next big thing to......
Heading into the second day of Greenbuild, there's no shortage to the announcements coming out of companies taking part in the building industry's largest green conference and expo....
Do commercial green buildings live up to their name -- that is, are they really making demonstrable energy and environmental improvements?...
The third edition of this comprehensive manual helps professionals understand, select, use and integrate green building materials into projects.
In New Orleans, I recently met a woman known in the Crescent City as the "Demo Diva," an entrepreneur who took her personal tragedy from Hurricane Katrina and turned it into a woman-......
Cool roofs, solar water heating and advanced metering are among the energy efficiency elements that are to be incorporated into new permanent Army buildings in the U.S. and abroad....
The U.S. General Services Administration has upped the ante again on green building and now requires all new federal buildings and major renovation projects to achieve at least LEED-Gold......
Policymakers assert that government investments in green initiatives can produce 20 percent more jobs than traditional economic stimulus measures. So far, however, job opportunities in the green......
Worsening structural problems in a LEED-certified county government building in Salem, Oregon, have forced occupants to vacate the premises. The future of the building is under review....
The state government of New South Wales (NSW) just released new planning guidelines that discourage development in some coastal zones due to sea level rise caused by climate change....
Project FROG, the maker of eye-catching, quick-to-construct net-zero energy buildings, and YKK AP America, the manufacturer of the enerGfacade line of green products, are teaming up....
Environmental Scientist Karen Bandhauer of the EPA provides the back story and a closer look at the agency's new online tool for sustainable design and green building....
I often speak to law students or prospective law students interested in green building careers. This post includes my standard advice ... First and foremost, green building is not a fad....
Recently there have been several cases of neighbors raising objections, valid or invalid, to green projects. But should David always defeat Goliath? When does collective good trump individual......
Just because a legal dispute arises about a unit in a green building doesn't qualify the case as green litigation. What would? Here's what legitimate claims about green construction defects could......
There's a difference between construction claims and green building litigation, and a dispute about a unit in a luxury Manhattan condo development -- where Leonardo DiCaprio and Tyra Banks are......
A tax deduction tied to specific energy reduction targets can create 1.3 million jobs while restoring credit capacity and liquidity in a commercial real estate market that faces a looming crisis......
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