The Department of Defense will continue to pursue LEED® Silver certification for new construction and major renovations. This is huge news not only because the Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy and other instrumentalities of the Department of Defense own and operate 299,000 buildings and 211,000 ...

The public comment period on the District of Columbia’s mandatory green building code closes on February 22, 2013. The new green code is significant, not only for those constructing or renovating buildings within DC, but because it portends a new green regulatory scheme that may ...

During the 2012 session of the Maryland General Assembly, legislators introduced 2,580 bills and by midnight on sine die, April 19, the legislature had passed more than 700 of those bills. This was not a very green year. Only a very modest number of those ...

The release yesterday by the American Institute of Architects of six new contract documents address the unique roles, risks, and opportunities encountered in Green building and create an urgency in considering how best to mitigate risk in Green building. Risk mitigation is of import to ...

During the 2011 session of the Maryland General Assembly, legislators introduced 2,353 bills and by midnight on sine die, April 11, the legislature had passed 707 of those bills. This was not a very green year. Only a very modest number of those bills advance ...

Yesterday, the U.S. District of Maryland dismissed a more than $6 Million lawsuit filed over materials supplied for the first ever LEED certified Platinum building. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Smithgroup its architect, and Clark Construction its construction company together asserted breach of contract and negligence ...

The U.S. Green Building Council has released LEED 2012®, the next version of its green building rating system, for a third public comment period that will close on March 20. While a fourth and final public comment period in late Spring is possible, and some ...