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Future Infrastructure Growth Model

Building form, CSBE news, GHG budgeting, Optimization, Structural design, Urban form

Rising social and economic pressures to build more housing and infrastructure are in tension with the need to rapidly reduce GHG emissions from resource extraction and use. This paper presents the Future Infrastructure Growth (FIG) model: an open data, bottom-up,...

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