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• Atlanta Restauranteurs Resisting Push for Green Building Legislation

  Recent efforts by Atlanta's restaurant industry to resist proposed green building legislation implicate the conclusions of NIBS' report about state- and local-level green building policy which we noted last month here at GRELJ. The Atlanta…

• Winnipeg Developer Requiring Commercial Tenants to Sign Green Lease

  Back in June, developer Allan Malbranck and his wife Anita opened a new 2-story, 12,800-square-foot office and retail building located at 1735 Corydon Avenue in Winnipeg. The couple believes their property is the first in…

• National Institute of Building Sciences Identifies Risk & Policy Problems Flowing from Green Building Rating Systems

  In September of 2008, the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences ("NIBS") assembled a Task Group of design professionals, builders, and its own staff members to review third-party building performance rating…

• Massachusetts Green Buildings Used 40 Percent More Energy Than Predicted

  Back in 2007, the Energy Engineering Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell completed a study of the actual energy performance of 19 green buildings across the Bay State. The study was funded by the…

• Model Green Lease Lands in New York City at Urban Green Expo

  Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to join a panel discussion on green leasing at the Urban Green Expo here in New York City. The session, which was titled "Green Leases: Aligning the Incentives of…

• Jerry Yudelson: “Dereliction” of Duty by Architects & Engineers Who Fail to Advocate for LEED Certification

  Green building consultant Jerry Yudelson delivered two keynote addresses earlier this month at an event sponsored by the Central Texas Green Building Council. According to a press release, during the course of his remarks Yudelson…

• Is San Francisco Reconsidering Its Green Building Legislation in Light of the LEED Performance Debate?

  The San Francisco Chronicle has picked up on the recent flurry of commentary generated by Mireya Navarro’s piece in the New York Times about the LEED building performance gap. The article opens up by stating…

• Can USGBC Improve the Performance of LEED Buildings by Collecting More Data?

  Mireya Navarro's recent piece in the New York Times about the energy performance of LEED buildings does not really shed much new light on a topic that many of us have been paying close attention…

• Reactions to Green Building Industry’s First LEED Certification “Guarantee:” Implications for Insurance Coverage & Limitation of Liability Provisions

  As you likely know by now, Atlanta-based Energy Ace, Inc. recently announced that it will offer what the company is calling the green building industry's first LEED certification guarantee. According to Energy Ace CEO Wayne…

• Contractor Leads Attack Against Nashville’s LEED Legislation

  Some interesting legislative developments are taking place right now in Nashville, Tennessee that implicate many of the green building policy issues that we’ve been wrestling with over the past few months here at GRELJ. Since…