Building Information Modeling (BIM), at its simplest, is a “Google Docs” of architectural production. Allowing many hands to work simultaneously on complex building projects, BIM is an industry-strength digital modeling ethic that generates drawings, schedules costs and components, simulates construction sequences, and coordinates global teams—all from a shared information database.

Disaster aid budgets are being stretched thin, leaving many people needing to elevate or sell their homes in limbo.

The process of scenario building is basically a science fictional exercise, imagining various possible futures starting from the current moment, and then arguing for one over the other. It’s notable that in H. Res. 109, the most prominent collection of ideas and proposals that has come to be known as the Green New Deal, the authors have decided to make human justice and equity major parts of the climate change mitigation project. These writers are to be congratulated.