Construction Law Today : Construction Lawyer & Attorney : Joshua Glazov : Design Build Contracts, Construction Bankruptcy

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AuggieV over at Building Green CT reports a Recent Surge In Connecticut Green Building News May Be A Good Sign.  Some of the things he mentions:

• Connecticut tied with Georgia for No. 1 in the fifth annual Global Green USA analysis and ranking of state Qualified Allocation Plans used by state housing finance agencies and guide annual distribution of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

• Reckson (a division of SL Green Realty Corp.) installed a new 100 kilowatt photovoltaic solar panel system on the roof of their facility on Greenwich

• The state of Connecticut and Gateway Community College just broke ground on a $198M campus in downtown New Haven.  It's the largest construction project the state undertaken to date and its first public building designed gold LEED certification. The project is also estimated to employ 350 workers

• Nestle Waters North America announced they will move their headquarters from Greenwich to Stamford in late 2010. The company plans to renovate the new Stamford headquarters for LEED certification. They've already got nine LEED certified facilities. The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development is providing a $4M low-interest loan to equip the new building and Nestle Waters is also eligible for up to $5 million in tax credits