{"id":756,"date":"2018-04-13T19:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.altavistainsurance.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2021-01-12T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T18:07:11","slug":"green-or-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/green-or-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Green or Scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green construction is becoming increasingly popular. about 35% of construction in 2013 was green, and it is expected to increase 55% by 2016. Although green construction is becoming the new fad, it may not be the choice. Here are a few topics to consider before going green:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure your green contractor has insurance. If he doesn&#8217;t, don&#8217;t hesitate to hire a new one. If you like your contractor, but he doesn&#8217;t have insurance, as part of the contract, require he gets it.<\/li>\n<li>Property damage coverage is not traditional! Although your building may be fully functional, it may not achieve &#8220;green status&#8221;, or meet LEED standard. If that&#8217;s the case, normal liability policies may not cover that issue. It is important to remember that&nbsp; some certified green professionals may be excluded from some liability policies; property damage may not be covered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So, how can you stay protected?<\/strong>&nbsp;DO YOUR RESEARCH! Go through a company that specifically offers green insurance. This way, if any construction falls into the &#8220;gray-green&#8221; area, you will be covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green construction is becoming increasingly popular. about 35% of construction in 2013 was green, and it is expected to increase 55% by 2016. Although green construction is becoming the new fad, it may not be the choice. Here are a few topics to consider before going green: Make sure your green contractor has insurance. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercial-insurance","category-contractors","category-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altavistainsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}