Category Archives: Green Building

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LEED Certification Challenges: What is “Close Enough”?

Originally posted 2010-06-14 09:00:08. There have been many discussions lately regarding the Northland Pines challenge to the LEED certification of its high school facility recently rejected by the USGBC, notably at the Builder’s Counsel Blog and at the Green Building Law Update.  You can check out the Green Building Law Update link for the entire…

Construction and Green Building Roundup

Originally posted 2011-06-13 09:38:57. Over the past week or so, several great pieces have been written across the web relating to green building and other construction industry related topics.  Without re-hashing the great analysis found in those articles, I thought that it would be helpful to point them out. Send to Kindleresearch

Energy Reporting and the Broken Window Problem

Originally posted 2009-10-05 09:00:00. Much discussion has centered around the de-certification aspect of the energy reporting requirements of the new LEED guidelines.  However, as I have been reading and commenting on the proposed energy reporting requirements found in the latest LEED certification guidelines, and looking at the issue through the eyes of Eeyore (my favorite…

Green Roofs: Greenery for the City-Dweller

Originally posted 2011-09-30 09:00:11. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome James Kim.  James writes for Austin Real Estate service Homecity.com. HomeCity combines powerful online Austin MLS search technology and other online tools with personalized real estate services to provide clients with the knowledge they need to make the right buying and…

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LEED, Lance Armstrong, & You?

For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Construction Law Musings, we would like to welcome back (again) Sean Lintow Sr. (@SLSConstruction) of AlaGBS / SLS Construction. Sean has over 20 years in the construction and project management fields and is a proud member of NARI, NADRA, USGBC, and NAHB. While he still specializes in…

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