For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome Mike Collignon. Mike is a co-founder of the Green Builder Coalition. The Green Builder® Coalition is working to improve the sustainable attributes of new and existing buildings through education, information and advocacy. From November 2-6, code officials, building officials, industry stakeholders and other interested […]
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?
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 for the LEED AP exam, and received my designation […]
Thanks to Greg Shelton at Construction Law Carolinas
Thanks to my new buddy Greg Shelton (@ConstrLawSCNC) and the up and coming Construction Law Carolinas blog for the opportunity to guest post! Here’s a quick excerpt: New green building projects are popping up all over the place. The USGBC, the entity that oversees and implements the LEED certification program, estimates that it has 1 […]
Builder Self-Verification & Certifications
For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Construction Law Musings, we welcome Sean Lintow (@SLSConstruction) of SLS Construction. Sean has 20 years in the construction and project management fields, started current business in Cullman county Alabama in 2006 after moving from Arizona. He has some commercial experience, but specialize mainly in residential remodeling, building […]