The May/June issue of eco-structure magazine offers an excellent article on insurance industry perspectives towards green building and the potential risks that design professionals may unwittingly encounter on green projects. Written by Chicago-based Gary Kingery, a design professional liability underwriter for architects and engineers, the article starts out by noting that insurers have little understanding [...]
May 10th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | ContinuedGreen Building Liability
American Bar Association to Offer Green Building CLE
Next Tuesday, February 20, from 1:00 to 2:30PM EST, the American Bar Association will hold a teleconference and live audio webcast addressing a variety of green building issues. What’s particularly noteworthy is that this appears to be the first forum of its kind offered by the ABA that will discuss the various legal and risk [...]
February 16th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Building Consultant Jerry Yudelson Peers Into 2007 Green Building Crystal Ball
Former USGBC board member, current chairman of Greenbuild, and author of Marketing Green Buildings and Developing Green, Jerry Yudelson, offers some 2007 green building predictions in the latest edition of Consulting-Specifying Engineer. (Image used with permission of Cristalier.com).
First, Yudelson believes that by the end of 2007, the cumulative number of LEED certifications will exceed [...]
BIM Treatise for Contractors Released
The Associated General Contractors of America has released a forty-eight page treatise entitled The Contractors’ Guide to BIM: Edition 1. Co-authored by general contractor/design-builder Barton Malow’s executive vice-president Les Snyder, the Guide hopes to allay contractors’ various fears about BIM, including its potential legal risks. Cadalyst AEC believes the Guide is the first BIM publication [...]
December 12th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
BD+C White Paper: Chapter 3, Financing Green Office Buildings
My somewhat ambitious goal for the remainder of 2006, at least with respect to this blog, is to provide a review, with commentary, for each chapter of the 2006 Building Design + Construction green building White Paper (which came out last month and is entitled Green Buildings and the Bottom Line). In my last post [...]
December 5th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
BD+C Green Building White Paper Acknowledges Potential Green Liability Issues
I’m planning a more detailed post about Building Design + Construction’s recently released 2006 White Paper on Sustainability (this year’s is titled Green Building and the Bottom Line), but I wanted to briefly point out that item number ten (of ten!) in the editors’ Executive Summary is a direct acknowledgement of the legal issues that [...]
November 28th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
Thoughts on the Autodesk/USGBC Partnership
The news coming out of Greenbuild includes the announcement of a partnership between Autodesk and USGBC. This is excellent news for smaller projects interested in applying for LEED certification, but at the same time will present liability issues for design teams, particularly with respect to Building Information Modeling (“BIM”).
Autodesk and the Green Building Council report [...]