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 […]
Green Building, Litigation and Risk
Originally posted 2010-12-03 09:00:25. Green Building is all the rage. From the latest version of LEED, LEED 3.0, to discussions of “LEEDigation.” Every level of government wants in on the latest in sustainability. Musings discussed this trend in prior posts relating to Virginia and “green” building and Virginia Business Magazine chimed in as well. This […]
The ARC and The Covenants
Originally posted 2012-11-02 09:00:03. For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome back Mike Collignon. Mike is a co-founder of the Green Builder Coalition. The Green Builder® Coalition amplifies the voice of green builders and professionals to drive advocacy and education for more sustainable building practices. As we start to see signs […]
Thoughts on Standard of Care?
Originally posted 2017-01-01 10:00:24. I had a great chat Friday with Shari Shapiro of the Green Building Law blog. The topic of discussion was whether the general standard of care in construction that includes knowing and building to the building code encompasses meeting LEED benchmarks found in some but far from all codes. I posted […]
Construction and Green Building Roundup
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.