The LEED® for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) Rating System™ passed the U.S. Green Building Council’s balloting and it was announced at the annual Greenbuild convention on November 12th that registration for new projects is anticipated to open in early 2010. As LEED has evolved and ...

Building green is the law in Baltimore City. And while the mandatory requirement for all to build green has been in effect since July 1, 2009, the City, just last week, publicly released a draft of a portion of the Baltimore City Green Building Standards. ...

The vanguard of commercial real estate today is the Greening existing buildings to decrease energy use, reduce operating expenses and attract tenants. The purpose of this writing is to provide a step by step strategy for pursuing the Greening of an existing building. LEED EB ...

You may not know what the letters in the acronym LEED CI stand for, but with Green building having long passed being simply a trend and now having risen to cultural value, you need to understand how leased commercial interiors are increasingly being built-out Green. ...

Ronald Reagan was famously quoted for reporting the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Current green building and redevelopment government mandates and incentives postdate the 1980s era 40th U.S. President, but most are ...

Despite the hue and cry over increased liability and the legal risk of Green building and sustainable development, there is not a single reported appellate court decision anywhere in the United States arising out of Green building. That void must be considered against the backdrop ...

Landlords and tenants must both now consider incorporating language in all new leases and renewals, even for existing buildings that are not Green, to include verbiage addressing issues of Green building. While a compelling issue for all existing buildings, addressing matters of Green building in ...

June 26, 2009, is the last day Green buildings will be able to register using the existing version of LEED. LEED is the now well known acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the U.S. Green Building Council’s green building certification system. Building owners, ...