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Summer 2012
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Well........quite a bit happening here at "World Headquarters". We recently launched a "DCI Green" initiative in our office. PLEASE see what you can do too.......it's easy!
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DCI opens "satellite" office
Colliers Links for Life Poker Tournament
There are millions of T12 lighting *fixtures left in Northern California’s industrial or warehouse buildings that will need to be replaced. Tenants and Owners will soon run out of replacement T12 lamps and be forced to retrofi*t at a higher cost. Until year end, PG&E’s energy efficiency rebates will cover about 25 percent of retrofi*t costs. The T12 rebate money is rapidly being used up, and PG&E is warning customers not to wait to replace these energy intensive lamps.
If the facility you own or manage has not had a lighting retrofi*t or upgrade in 20 years, it is most likely T12 or a *first-generation T8 (rebates are being eliminated for both). The simplest way to identify an 8-foot T12 is that it is larger in diameter, with a single node at each end. The light from a T12 has a buff* or yellow tone. T12 is also come in 4-foot lengths and U-shaped.
With PG&E’s rebates being eliminated, industrial and commercial facilities are scrambling to replace the T12 *fixtures with energy e*fficient T8s and T5s; and the market is being fl*ooded with inexperienced or unscrupulous contractors that don’t provide clear estimates or can’t complete a project.
If you own or operate a facility with conventional T12 systems, you will need to modernize them or replace them altogether. Don’t wait, and lose the opportunity for PG&E rebates.
How It Works
We will provide our clients with an efficiency and high-quality
T12 retrofi*t. We will:
• Do a site inspection and audit of existing fixtures.
• Provide a financial analysis that is accurate, maximizes
PG&E rebates, and provides ROI, cost payback, and includes
the IRS Energy Efficient Commercial Building Tax Deduction,
or 179D (also known as EPACT).
• Schedule an installation time period that works for you.
Usually our 3-man crews can do a 100,000 sq. ft. building
in 2-3 weeks.
• Remove old fixtures and lamps; recycle as required by PG&E.
• Install new high-quality energy efficient lamps per Title 24
and all applicable codes.
• Provide owner with all warranties, etc.
• Apply for PG&E rebates.
• Calculate and certify the Energy Efficient Commercial
Building Tax Deduction, or 179D.
To schedule an appointment, please contact Sara Morgan, smorgan@doyleconstruction.com and/or ext. 115
Collaborative Space
For more information see: http://www.allsteeloffice.com/SynergyDocuments/CollaborationWhitePaper.pdf?utm_source=June+2012+John&utm_campaign=June+Email&utm_medium=email
Mechanincs Lien Law Changes
Contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, design professionals, and all others who are entitled by statute to assert a mechanics lien for recovery for services or materials furnished to a work of improvement should be aware of significant changes to the mechanics lien law which will go into effect July 1, 2012. These changes are as a result of legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2010. The legislation (A.B. 180) makes changes to the mechanics lien laws, and to other construction remedies such as stop notices, payment bonds and related claims.
The substantive changes made by the new legislation to the former mechanics lien law are relatively modest. Two of the more substantive recent changes, which went into effect in 2011, include a change in the form of the mechanics lien claim and its method of service (Civil Code §3084). This change is retained in the new law, and will be re-codified as Civil Code §8416. Also retained in the new law is the 2011 requirement that claimant's record a lis pendens within 20 days of filing the lien foreclosure action (currently Civil Code §3146).
For More Information: http://www.drivecms.com/uploads/ramseylawgroup.com/Changes%20to%20Mechanics%20Lien%20Law%20eff.%207.1.12.pdf
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