Tag Archives: carbon footprint

This is GIS

As the leading professional organization for GIS professionals, URISA has long supported climate and community resilience efforts. The association has delivered 20 years of GIS emergency management and response and resilience efforts across the globe through GISCorps, to leading development and supporting sustainability and community resilience data efforts, conference sessions, training, and workshops and with...

A BIM of Hope for the Environment

This innovative building information modeling tool aims to reduce the construction sector’s carbon footprint. But unlike other practices, it begins at the design phase. The construction sector is in a conundrum. Decades of non-stop sawing and hammering have been wonderful for the world’s economy yet dismal for the environment. In the latest figures from the...