The U.S. Green Building Council announced last week that LEED v4®, the newest version of its green building rating system had been approved by an affirmative vote of more than 86% of those in the consensus body of members. The USGBC all but created the ...

In recent days, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a resilience plan with 250 action items to increase the resilience of buildings and infrastructure across New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Governor O’Malley of Maryland issued an executive order with the single resilience edict that all ...

Last week, the Green Building Advisory Committee recommended to the U.S. General Services Administration that “GSA strongly encourage the use of the LEED standard across the government.” For the good of the environmental industrial complex This is huge, not only because the federal government operates ...

During the 2013 session of the Maryland General Assembly, legislators introduced 2,610 bills and by midnight on sine die, 90 days later on April 9, the legislature had passed more than 766 of those bills. This was not a very green year. Only a very ...

The U.S. General Services Administration is soliciting comments through April 8, 2013 on how the Federal government can best use green building certification systems. Section 436 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires the Director of GSA's Office of Federal High-Performance Green ...

The sixth and final public comment period on the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED v4®, the next version of its green building rating system, will close on March 31, 2013. There are 23 credits in which substantive changes are proposed from the draft text last ...

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 ...