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Healthcare Is Fastest Growing Market for Prefabrication and Modular Construction
Timing is everything! As I was preparing for a LEED for Healthcare presentation this week, one of my partners sent me a piece about the innovative use of "pods" to cut building costs. The artic...
An Explanation of the Proposed (and Unofficial) LEED 2012 Requirements and Credits
In what has been unofficially called LEED 2012, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) opened the first public comment period from November 8, 2010 to January 14, 2011 for the next version of t...
Cost v. LEED Certification Debate Continues: One County Finds Middle Ground
It really is impossible to put your arms around the number of green building and energy performance policies and codes that are sprouting up all across the nation. When a project involves priva...
LEED Certification Challenge in Less Than 140 Characters
About a year ago, I wrote a post on the trending topic of LEED revocation or de-certification. That issue has not gone away … it actually has been brought to the front page of the news. Th...
What Are the Benefits of LEED Certification? Some Say Benefits Don’t Justify High Costs
As a follow-up to my post yesterday about the costs of LEED certification, I was not surprised to read the following lead line in a local newspaper in Cary, North Carolina: "Cary wants to be...
What Are the Real Costs of LEED Certification? You May Be Surprised.
Most owner and developers would imagine that the most significant costs of LEED certification are the front-end registration and back-end submittal costs. Are they correct? Depends. Environm...
Austin’s First LEED Platinum Home Featured at ABA Construction Forum Breakfast
I am in Austin, Texas this week attending the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry’s annual meeting. One of the ways that I got more involved in the Forum was participating in the activitie...
Vancouver Olympic Village Receives “Platinum LEED Medal” in Winter Olympics: Is the Price Worth It?
For the next couple of weeks, the only thing you will see on our living room television is the Winter Olympics. Luge…daring!. Freestyle moguls…awesome! Snowboard cross…cool! Figure...
Hot Off the Press: ConsensusDOCS Releases Green Building Addendum
As much as possible, I like to highlight various forms of construction contract documents. In most of my green building presentations over the past few months, I have talked about the "soon t...
Father of LEED Says: “Green Buildings Only Bright Spot in Construction Industry”
I am certainly not the first … and certainly won’t be the last … person to write about Robert Watson’s webinar presentation yesterday afternoon entitled, Building a Sustainable Future: Pr...