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.
Resiliency
Setting a New & Better Course – Autocase’s post-pandemic call to arms – Part 3
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.
Reassessing What is Essential and Important – Autocase’s post-pandemic call to arms – Part 2
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.
Back to Normal – Autocase’s post-pandemic call to arms – Part 1
It is becoming increasingly clear that people want a different “normal” after the pandemic. As governments spend, we hope we take the opportunity to think, debate, review, and plan for a smart recovery to a better quality of life. Autocase’s post-pandemic call to arms – Part 1
GIS and Autocase to Optimize Stormwater Value
Where is the best place for a rain garden? If water quality or urban heat island is my primary concern which green infrastructure feature should I use?
The Science Behind Sustainable Design
Two dozen sustainable and resilient design industry leaders came together in Houston to discuss how to rebuild better.
The fingerprint of climate change is now clearer—and it’s sticking around
Climate attribution scientists using “fingerprint studies” are now able to detect man-made climate change. Not so long ago, this kind of analysis would have been impossible but climate scientists are now able to separate out the natural from the man-made influence....
Credit Rating Agencies are Connecting the Dots Between Credit Risk and Municipal Resiliency
Back in 2015, it came to our attention that Moody’s had evaluated the effect of flood reduction efforts on municipal debt levels and tax bases in Virginia’s Hampton Roads metropolitan region. Moody's Investors Service noted that “Coastal cities in southeastern...
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