Congratulations to our founder American Society of Civil Engineers on the publication of Standard 73-23 on sustainable infrastructure. The standard is harmonized with Envision and complements the rating system by providing policy level guidance for owners.

ISI is proud to have been involved in the standard development. We are grateful to ASCE for their efforts and vision from the beginning to align the standard and Envision in order to provide consistent and supportive sustainability resources for our industry.

From ASCE’s announcement:

ASCE has released a first-of-its-kind standard, ASCE/COS 73-23: Standard Practice for Sustainable Infrastructure, which provides guidance for infrastructure owners to develop and implement sustainable solutions throughout a project’s entire life cycle.

The standard is a non-mandatory, performance-based consensus standard designed for civil infrastructure ranging from transportation projects to water systems and the energy grid…

Read the release.