Originally posted 2010-10-13 09:10:19. For this week’s Guest Post Friday, Musings welcomes Imad Naffa. Imad is the Founder and President of NAFFA International, a private Building Code Consulting Services company in Fresno, CA. He is also the Developer and Administrator of the Building Code Discussions Group (BCDG), one of the largest building code online communities
Originally posted 2012-01-20 09:00:05. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Construction Law Musings, we welcome back Elaine Hirsch. Elaine describes herself as a kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education and history to medicine and videogames. This makes it difficult to choose just one life path, so she is currently working as a writer
Originally posted 2016-10-26 11:35:05. Way back in 2009, I discussed the interaction between taller and taller buildings and sustainable (“green”) building. Back then, the reference was to the construction of skyscrapers in the Middle East and Europe. The initially referenced ENR article was written in the context of an urban retrofit of some of Chicago’s
Originally posted 2012-09-10 09:00:00. As a reader of Construction Law Musings, you no doubt realize that I am a big proponent of “green” or sustainable building. I have also been known to sound a bit like Eeyore when discussing the charge into the breach of green building without considering the potential risks. Thankfully, and despite
Originally posted 2011-03-04 10:00:01. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Construction Law Musings, I’m happy to re-welcome a good friend, Shari Shapiro, Esq., LEED AP. Shari blogs at www.greenbuildinglawblog.com where this post also appears. Ms. Shapiro is an associate with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP in the Environmental Department. She focuses her practice