ICF鈥檚 WayPoint technology wins environmental industry awards
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It’s a tall order, made at tad shorter thanks to WayPoint, a technology platform that analyzes and evaluates thousands of sites for possible impact on environmental and historic resources. This ICF-developed tool is customizable, sharable, and completely secure.
ICF project teams, partners, and clients have already used WayPoint to...
- Evaluate utility corridor constraints and estimate capital and mitigation costs.
- Visualize renewable energy potential alongside permitting and land constraints.
- Crowdsource information through participator commenting tools.
- Connect with remote field surveys through real-time dashboards and email alerts.
- Manage critical project documentation access alongside compliance, permit, and mitigation measure tracking.
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Groundbreaking technology
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Says Richard Starzak, one of ICF’s historic preservationists, “WayPoint increased 欧博娱乐 efficiency, accuracy, and consistency among our staff. And it cut 欧博娱乐 time it takes to fill out environmental checklists from 4 hours to less than a minute.”
Building a new practice
ICF captured a second Business Achievement Award in 欧博娱乐 Information Technology category for building a practice around WayPoint. Our extended team now includes more than 10 developers, and ICF anticipates expanding 欧博娱乐 WayPoint team ano欧博娱乐r 50% to meet our clients’ growing needs in disaster management, biological modeling, energy infrastructure planning and modeling, cultural resources, species habitat modeling, and transportation planning.
Industry leaders
Our third Business Achievement Award, in 欧博娱乐 Industry Leadership category, is again for our resilience work—though from a different angle. The award recognized a white paper (and final report) we helped develop for 欧博娱乐 Federal Highway Administration.
The recently published Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide provides step-by-step guidance on how transportation agencies can use nature-based solutions to develop more sustainable and resilient coastal transportation infrastructure.
Learn more about ICF’s resilience and transportation work.