Election Day 2014 in which Republicans made big gains in Congress and statehouses across the country portends huge business opportunities for green building. As more conservative legislative bodies look to enact environmental and energy policies while driving up growth without enacting new mandates or imposing ...

On November 14, the International Code Council announced that the 2015 version of the International Green Construction Code had been approved. News of the approval has not circulated widely, likely in part because the announcement was a bit cryptic when the ICC press release reported ...

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Last week, a federal appeals court brought back from the dead, a more than $6 Million lawsuit filed over materials supplied for the first ever LEED certified Platinum building. Despite that the unpublished opinion is not binding precedent, it is having a chilling effect on ...

This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just for lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update ...

This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just for lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update ...

This article first appeared on my Green Building Law Update blog. The Green Building Law Update blog is intended for the entire environmental industrial complex (not just for lawyers). Please sign up for notice of new blog posts via email, at Green Building Law Update ...

House Bill 207, approved unanimously in both the Maryland House and Senate and expected to be signed by Governor Martin O’Malley this Thursday, May 15, 2014 broadens the definition of a “high performance building” to include any building that complies with a nationally recognized and ...