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How Smart Cities Are Changing the Way We Live
Cities are using smart devices to monitor and manage services such as waste collection, energy distribution, public transportation and security – this technology generates vast amounts of data. Future-ready…
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The Benefits of Smart Grids
Smart grids combine automation, communication, and information technologies into the existing electricity infrastructure to allow two-way dialogue between electricity providers and consumers and self-healing properties that allow for two-way…
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What is Urban Mobility?
Urban mobility refers to a collection of technologies, operational approaches, and policies designed to create liveable urban centres. Urban mobility seeks to reduce traffic congestion, pollution, noise pollution, stress…
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The Benefits of Energy Storage
Energy storage allows homes to harness green energy even when it isn’t shining or windy, helping reduce demand and avoid peak pricing. Rechargeable batteries such as lead-acid and lithium-ion…
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The Importance of Land Use Planning
Land use planning refers to the process of determining how land will be utilized by a community and includes commercial, residential, transportation and agricultural lands. A properly planned land-use…
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Understanding Zoning Regulations
Zoning regulations govern where and what buildings may be built on a property, including activities allowed at that site, their density, height of structures and other factors. Zoning should…
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The Importance of Digital Governance
Digital governance refers to the set of policies and standards that regulate content-related decisions within organizations, making digital governance a critical element of high performing organizations. Automation offers many…
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What is Community Engagement?
Community engagement is the democratic idea that citizens’ opinions and participation are integral parts of local policymaking, providing aspirations, concerns, and values into decision making processes. Attaining this goal…
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Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) involves collecting CO2 emissions from fossil fuel power plants, industrial facilities such as cement and steel manufacturing and fertiliser production facilities and storing them…
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What You Need to Know About Electric Vehicles (EVs)
There’s something calming and peaceful about watching an electric vehicle glide along a highway at the end of a hard day’s work, thanks to advances in battery technology and…
