A cancer diagnosis changes your life, says John Williams, chairman and CEO, Impact Infrastructure. When Williams learned he had the disease, he retired from his role as principal owner of an architecture and engineering firm on his 25th anniversary with the company.
He then chose a new quest: Supporting the industry's growing commitment to the creation of a sustainable built environment. The result is AutoCASE, a low-cost, web-based analysis tool, launched on Jan. 14, that automates the traditionally expensive process of analyzing a proposed project's social, environmental and financial impacts—known as triple-bottom-line analysis. Making TBL analysis affordable for smaller firms should help them compete for the grants that often are available for sustainable infrastructure projects, Williams says.