Current legal issues in green building and real estate, including contracts, leasing, and legislation, for owners, builders, and design professionals.
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That’s obviously a great reason to slow down our publication schedule, but to try and start making up for the lack of articles here, please feel free to download this archive of all the green leasing articles we’ve published here at GRELJ in a handy PDF white paper . I hope you’ll fin...
The Article’s points about the currently Byzantine nature of federal green building procurement are well-presented. But it is the FAR with which Professor Tolan concludes the piece: he presents some specific recommendations for both design/bid/build and design/build procurement: in or...
The survey also yielded some interesting attitudes about green buildings and sustainability within real estate generally. For example, although 50 percent of respondents agreed that green buildings have the potential to become an asset class of their own, less than 50 percent agreed t...
he Philadelphia City Council is on the verge of approving an ordinance that would require owners of commercial office buildings larger than 50,000 square feet to report their energy and water consumption in the form of a “green score” based on the federal government’s Energy Star prog...
After walking through the case history and providing an overview of EPCA and the building code exception, the court first focused on the plaintiffs’ argument that the Washington code failed to satisfy the building code exception’s requirement that – in order to survive a preemption ch...
“Empirical evidence on the effect of environmental certification on commercial real estate properties routinely finds evidence of both significant rental rate and occupancy rate premiums accruing to owners of LEED and/or Energy Star certified properties. Interestingly, however, the un...
Of particular interest, the complaint also alleges that the defendants misappropriated the plaintiff’s proprietary “LEED Scorecard:” an “approximately twenty-page document that DGP, at substantial time and expense, created in order to manage all technical aspects of LEED consulting as...
arlier this month, in a joint effort with a number of organizations that include NRDC , BOMA , and the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate , the Department of Energy launched the Green Lease Librar y. The site’s mission is to consolidate green leasing resources for owners, tenants, la...
