The price, or cost, or social cost of a tonne of carbon, or carbon dioxide, or CO2, is complicated. The estimates of climate change externalities change over time, have to be re-based, and the resulting carbon costs and benefits from infrastructure and buildings...
Impact Infrastructure, Stantec and VERDUNITY presentation by: John C. Parker, ENV-SP, Chief Economist, Impact Infrastructure, Inc. John Wise, PE, CFM, ENV-SP, Managing Principal, Stantec Mikel Wilkens, PE, ENV-SP, Environmental/Sustainability Program Manager VERDUNITY...
I’d like to claim that after we wrote about the need for an infrastructure bank in Canada last week, Dominic Barton consulted with us to come up with a “blueprint for Canada’s economic future”[1] and that he took our recommendation to build “a national arm’s-length...
Canada needs an infrastructure bank. Not necessarily to give more, or cheaper, funds to provinces and municipal infrastructure owners/proposers but because we need to ensure the highest priority projects are built right. We need the infrastructure bank to bring an...
Autocase for Sustainable Buildings launched at Greenbuild last week. "Can a green building make your company smarter? That's what new research suggests, underscoring the ROI for green certifications — not just for optimizing the usual factors such as energy and water...
I agree that using a triple bottom line assessment for infrastructure makes sense because when it comes to infrastructure we are ignoring three basic facts. The first is that we build infrastructure for the public benefits that it brings. Second, the benefits of...
From October 4-11th with every purchase of an annual Autocase license, our expert team of economists will provide the free consulting required for one of your projects to earn the new LEED pilot credit "Informing Design Using Triple Bottom Line Analysis." This limited...
In a previous post, I discussed how in Autocase for Sustainable Buildings, we would be quantifying how sustainable buildings rents and occupancy are higher than non-certified buildings. Autocase for Sustainable Buildings (coming in beta at Greenbuild this week) has...
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