The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward the importance of optimizing building design for occupant well-being and places emphasis on the interaction between indoor air quality (IAQ) and human health. The effects of poor IAQ can occur immediately via sick building...
Soon after taking office, the Biden-Harris administration announced its goal of conserving at least 30% of lands and waters in the U.S. by 2030 in the Executive Order on Tackling Climate Change at Home and Abroad, commonly referred to as 30x30. On May 6, federal...
High performing building standards can take many forms and are offered through various certification partners that outline a list of credit requirements that developers must satisfy. With many varying certifications standards and best practices for assessing building...
This past Easter weekend, I made plans to go portaging with my family in our favourite camping grounds in central Ontario, Algonquin Park. Portaging truly removes you from the modern world - leaving behind phones, laptops, TVs, allowing oneself to become immersed with...
I was recently recommended a book by our CEO and founder, John Williams, called “let my people go surfing” by Yvon Chouinard. It is the founding story of a company you likely know well, Patagonia. At first I didn’t know why this book was so highly recommended;...
Autocase Advisory Services is proud to have successfully supported the competitive based grant funding application for the Port of Long Beach, East Basin Rail Fourth Track Expansion. Grant funding was provided under the Trade Corridor Expansion Program (TCEP), a...
The pandemic has highlighted some important price/value mismatches and I’d like to explain how what we, at Autocase, do and how it fits into the post-pandemic world.
All governments, infrastructure planners, designers and decision makers need to adopt a triple bottom line cost benefit analysis approach for building and infrastructure decisions to ensure that users, the environment and all stakeholders are best served by a post-pandemic stimulus package.
As we re-build the economy, we need to make sure that what we build reflects our values and that “public values help shape private value”. We need Triple Bottom Line Costs Benefit Analysis (TBL-CBA) to measure value and set priorities.
It has been noted that despite the pandemic, the natural world doesn’t care and perhaps even doing better since the economy has been shuttered. As we re-build we need to remember that the economy serves us, economic growth is not an end in and of itself.
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