This section deals with the carbon footprint of components of structures and infrastructure, including green design, green buildings, green infrastructure, and assessment tools.
The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute, and one of only 35 fully certified Living Buildings in the world.
With AI-driven modeling, flood projections and scenario plans can be set
up quickly, allowing far more sensitivity and insight than a static
projection can generate from historical data.
Grants go to 80 road, bridge, transit and other projects to improve their ability to withstand floods, rising seas and other harmful effects of climate change in 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.