The New York City Autocase Advisory Group (AAG) meeting brought together a diverse mix of professionals across multiple disciplines to discuss sustainability and resilience in both New York and North America at large.
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Inaugural Collaborators Will Help Spread Autocase to New Markets
Green Bonds Standards – Creating a Market for Green Lemons?
Editor's note: We were privileged to have Andrew Zaduban working at Autocase for the last 8 months. Andrew is a student at Wilfrid Laurier University enrolled in the Master of Arts in Business Economics (MABE) program and he has just returned to complete his degree....
Cost-Justifying Green Buildings to Skeptics – GreenBuild 2017
One of the most highly-attended sessions at GreenBuild 2017, entitled "Cost-Justifying Green Buildings to Skeptics", was moderated by Emma Stewart, USGBC Director and Chair of the Advisory Council, with presentations by Anthony Bernheim of The Allen Group, LLC, ...
The Higher Standard: Triple bottom line decision making for infrastructure
Too often infrastructure discourse is focused on the financials of a project. Discussion forms around jobs created, capital spent, or payback periods while missing the main objective of infrastructure: providing value to society. This is a reminder to designers and...
The Rental and Occupancy Benefits of Sustainable Buildings
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...
Infrastructure that Abides by the Triple Bottom Line of Sustainable Development
From Jeffrey Sachs in the Boston Globe: "We should seek an infrastructure that abides by the triple bottom line of sustainable development. That is, the networks of roads, power, water, and communications should support economic prosperity, social fairness, and...
The Social Value of Water (Part 2 – All Water)
How valuable is water? That depends on where you are. "Water is both essential and versatile. It is critical to human and ecosystem health, necessary in many industrial processes, indispensable in food and energy production, an important vehicle for disposing of...
The Social Value of Water (Part 1 – Groundwater)
As water issues continue to take a backseat to climate change, new research finds groundwater depletion is causing parts of Beijing to sink by 11 centimeters (more than four inches) per year (1). This is not a unique phenomenon, Mexico City is sinking by as much as 28...
Conference Papers and Presentations
Interested in Green Infrastructure, Low Impact Development, Stormwater Best Management Practice, or Green Buildings? Here are some resources ... It has been a busy few months on the pre-summer conference scene and I've pulled together a collection of papers and...
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