I’ve written before about the potential for design professionals to unwittingly expose themselves to unanticipated risks on green construction projects. In a presentation at last month’s 2007 AIA National Convention in San Antonio, Frank Musica, an attorney with a Maryland-based insurance company, provided an overview of twenty-one actual “green claims” brought against engineers and architects. […]
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gbNYC Editorial: Going Green? New York State Should Repeal the Wicks Law
Last month’s (February 2007) edition of New York Construction magazine focuses largely on green building in the metropolitan area. There’s an extensive overview of the Queens Botanical Garden project, which I recently discussed in a post about green efforts in the borough of Queens. I mention it again here because the article makes an excellent […]
Op Ed: The Greening of Buildings
I had the opportunity to write about Babylon’s green building legislation, which was recently incorporated into the Long Island town’s building code, as part of an editorial in today’s (Sunday) edition of New York Newsday. The piece focuses largely on LEED creep- which I’ve discussed here in prior posts- and touches on some issues that […]
