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 selling decisions. From Austin…
Thoughts on the construction landscape from Christopher G. Hill, Virginia construction lawyer, LEED AP and member of the Virginia Legal Elite in Construction Law
Category Archives: Green Building
Whence Green Building?
It has been a while since I last “mused” on sustainable (or “green”) building. Since my last post on the subject much has been in the news, and most of it negative in some way. While much good has occurred to advance the sustainable building cause, recent news on this front has shed an unnecessarily…
LEED AP Update- Worth It For a Lawyer?
Originally posted 2009-09-28 09:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter LEED 3.0 is here and with it the new CMP requirements for a specialty designation. As I think about this new world of specialty designation outlined by the USGBC, I am torn regarding an attorney’s need to update the designation. I learned a lot while studying…
Energy Reporting and the Broken Window Problem
Originally posted 2009-10-05 09:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter 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…
Why Build Green in Virginia? It Just Makes Sense.
Originally posted 2009-02-09 10:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Image via Wikipedia Lately terms such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and Green Building have been thrown about in the press, by politicians, and by local zoning and building officials in Virginia. Nationally, the Obama administration has shown support for green building. Locally,…
