{"id":457,"date":"2012-04-06T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2012-04-06T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:15:58","slug":"challenging-legal-mandates-for-green-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/challenging-legal-mandates-for-green-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Legal Mandates for Green Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen K. Pudner &#8211; March 7, 2012<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you were denied a certificate of occupancy because a private company decided your building was not \u201cgreen\u201d enough?\u00a0 While this may seem far-fetched, it is a question you may have to answer if you work in one of the numerous municipalities that have adopted the U.S. Green Building Council\u2019s \u201cLEED\u201d rating system for \u201cgreen\u201d construction as part of their building codes.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous avenues for challenging the legality of such laws, including whether the laws are unconstitutional.\u00a0 Another avenue is arguing that the local laws are preempted by federal law.\u00a0 This was the basis for a recent federal court challenge of the Albuquerque energy code, including its LEED mandate.\u00a0 In a 2010 order, a federal judge upheld portions of the Albuquerque\u2019s energy code requiring LEED certification against a challenge that these requirements were preempted by federal law, but struck down other portions of the law.\u00a0 In a subsequent order, the judge struck down the entire law, including the LEED requirement, because she determined that the LEED requirements could not be severed from the preempted portions of the law.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether Albuquerque will reenact the LEED requirement as a stand-alone law, or whether such a stand-alone LEED requirement would survive legal scrutiny on other grounds, such as challenges toto its constitutionality.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be interesting to see whether the USGBC\u2019s LEED rating system itself survives challenges from competing \u201cgreen\u201d building codes, such as the 2012 International Green Construction Code recently adopted by the International Code Council.<\/p>\n<p>If you are denied a building permit or are otherwise impeded because your project is deemed not to be \u201cgreen\u201d enough according to a law requiring LEED compliance, be prepared to defend your rights, and your livelihood, by challenging the validity of the law<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexology.com\/library\/detail.aspx?g=99a5808e-a7de-41cc-a936-f19b568da074&amp;utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&amp;utm_medium=HTML+email+-+Body+-+Federal+section&amp;utm_campaign=Lexology+subscriber+daily+feed&amp;utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2012-04-04&amp;utm_term=\">Challenging legal mandates for green building &#8211; Lexology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen K. Pudner &#8211; March 7, 2012 What would you do if you were denied a certificate of occupancy because a private company decided your building was not \u201cgreen\u201d enough?\u00a0 While this may seem far-fetched, it is a question you may have to answer if you work in one of the numerous municipalities that have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/challenging-legal-mandates-for-green-building\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Challenging Legal Mandates for Green Building<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[145,66],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-2","category-green-construction","tag-green-building","tag-leed","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Challenging Legal Mandates for Green Building - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/challenging-legal-mandates-for-green-building\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Challenging Legal Mandates for Green Building - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stephen K. 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