Building Green: Navigating the Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Sustainable Real Estate

Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A

Conducted on Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Program Materials

This CLE webinar will provide best practices when planning and negotiating green building contracts. The panel will outline strategies for resolving legal disputes between builders, contractors, subcontractors, tenants and other affected parties.

Description

Builders are incorporating green concepts in development projects to reduce energy costs, qualify for tax breaks, and attract tenants. Major cities, including New York, Washington, Atlanta and Seattle, have enacted green building requirements for public construction projects.

Green building is expected to increase significantly into 2010. The economic recovery package passed in late 2008 extended tax incentives for green commercial building until 2013. New business opportunities emerge for builders and contractors, and so do associated legal risks.

Legal concerns include assigning responsibility for a green building that fails to attain the intended certification, allocating liability for construction and design claims in the construction contract, and determining the scope of insurance coverage for various elements of green building.

Listen as our panel provides best practices on green building projects for builders' and contractors' counsel. The panel will review common legal considerations in developing green construction projects and effective tactics to resolve disputes among the development team and with other impacted parties.

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Outline

  1. Current trends and opportunities
    1. Prescriptive and performance measures for green building
    2. Tax incentives
    3. Emerging technologies
  2. Legal considerations and best practices in green building projects
    1. Contract provisions
    2. Insurance coverage
    3. Green building disputes and liability issues
  3. On the horizon - Green lending/financing

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key questions:

  • How can counsel help builders and construction companies take advantage of the opportunities in green building?
  • How can counsel for builders and developers protect their clients' interests in contract negotiations for a green building project?
  • What are the factors to consider in securing insurance coverage for green building projects?
  • What strategies should counsel employ to defend against disputes and litigation arising from a green construction project?

Faculty

Jeffrey D. Masters
Jeffrey D. Masters
Partner
Cox Castle Nicholson

He is co-chair of the firm's Development Risk Management Practice Group. He represents developers and homebuilders in...  |  Read More

Don Neff
Don Neff
President
La Jolla Pacific

He is a construction quality expert with more than 25 years of experience in the real estate industry, covering all...  |  Read More

Peter J. Korda
Peter J. Korda
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw

He is co-head of the Structured and Real Estate Finance Group. He represents lenders on real estate finance...  |  Read More

Sean M. O'Brien
Sean M. O'Brien
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw

He focuses his practice on the representation of banks, institutional investors, hedge funds, investment banking...  |  Read More

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