If you’re planning on doing any home remodeling this winter/spring, be sure to take advantage of the Ohio “Cash for Appliances” program. Ohio will use $11 million in Federal stimulus funds (aka: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) for rebates on energy efficient appliances. Ohio will issue approximately 90,000 rebates to consumers who replace old [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Happy Holidays from the Federal Government – Ohio “Cash for Appliances”
Posted in Green Building Incentives, Ohio, tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, cash for appliances, Ohio, Stimulus Money on December 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ohio HB 7 Passes the House
Posted in Codes and Regulations, LEED, Ohio, State, tagged Green Globes, HB 7, LEED on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On December 16th, the Ohio House of Representatives passed HB 7, legislation “[t]o enact section 153.013 of the Revised Code to require a building or structure constructed using state capital budget moneys to adhere to certain energy efficiency and building standards and to encourage the use of Ohio-produced products.” More specifically, the proposed code provision [...]
Green Building Contracts: Part 1
Posted in LEED, tagged AGC, AIA, American Institute of Architects, Association of General Contractors, Green Building Contracts, LEED on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Construction contracts are used to define relationships between the key players of a project (i.e. architect, general contractor, sub-contractors, engineers, LEED® APs), and to create a process for decision making and dispute resolution that is agreed to beforehand by all parties. When building green, it is even more important to have in place a well defined [...]
The latest and greatest on green office trends
Posted in Global, Green building litigation, National, tagged Green Office, trends on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of Climategate, and as the economy in general continues to sputter along, we seem to be bidding farewell to the trendiness of the green movement. I say good riddance! Those who were “going green” (my least favorite phrase since “your hard drive just crashed”) to be trendy have probably abandoned ship. Those [...]
LEEDigation, Part III: “We’re Only Human”
Posted in Green building litigation, LEED, LEED v3, Leedigation, tagged LEED, Leedigation, New Buildings Institute, USGBC on December 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Setting aside for now the question of whether or not litigators are, in fact, human, this post explores the potential for human error to contribute to litigation related to green building and construction projects. A study commissioned by the USGBC and the U.S. EPA, and conducted by the New Buildings Institute, concluded that 25% of [...]
Project Seedlings: Giving back through green building education
Posted in Green Building Incentives, LEED, Ohio, tagged Dupler Office, green building education, LEED on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the more inspired, and inspiring, programs related to green building that I have witnessed was recently delivered to a group of urban schoolchildren. With the support of his employer Dupler Office and other volunteers, Stephan Cooke created an initiative called Project Seedlings, an organization created to spark education on sustainability issues in a [...]
Green Building Litigation, Part II: Forewarned is Forearmed
Posted in City, Codes and Regulations, Green Building Incentives, Green building litigation, LEED, tagged Green Building Incentives, LEED, Leedigation on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part of our mission here at OGBL is trying to prevent disputes that might arise on account of the relative infancy of the green building industry. Risk management and informing our clients of potential exposures to liability is a large part of our job as attorneys. With that being said, here are a few things [...]
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