Renomics Approach

The Sustainability Challenge: The separated, siloed approach to community infrastructure is no longer tenable. We need cheaper, smarter, more sustainable approaches that make the best use of scarce resources while ensuring energy, water, and food security. And that minimize the community’s footprint – its impact on the planet and on generations to come.

Our Whole-System Solution: The smart sustainable community is an elegant answer to that challenge. In a smart sustainable community, services are designed and managed as parts of an inter-related system, not as isolated "stovepipes."

The Renomics Approach

When you view community infrastructure holistically, new pathways to sustainability become possible, lowering both inputs – the resources you bring in – and outputs – the waste and emissions you produce:

  • Natural assets turn into new revenue streams.
    
On-site renewable energy can be traded back and forth with the larger grid. Local vegetation may generate payments for ecosystems services such as carbon offsets or biodiversity. Stormwater can morph from an expensive headache to a source of water for irrigation, aquaculture, or biofuels.

  • “Waste” from one service becomes a resource for another.
    
Garbage can feed a waste-to-energy plant. Sewage can feed algae to produce biodiesel and fertilizer. Excess heat from factories and data centers can warm nearby buildings.

  • Reduce costs by sharing assets and eliminating redundancies.
    
With a little planning, community infrastructure can share everything from trenches to GIS systems to security to digital command and control centers, cutting both construction costs and ongoing operations expenses.

  • Build in efficiency to cut energy and water.
    
With planning, you can slash power and water usage through new approaches, next-generation materials, and advanced HVAC systems, lighting, appliances and building controls.

Renomics studies each project to find the best options. Then it uses the latest technology to analyze tradeoffs and optimize the entire system.

The Benefits

Our whole system approach meets your needs for people, planet and profitability:

People

  • Honors and supports local culture
  • Creates security and diversity in water, energy, food and air quality
  • Creates a more livable, desirable community
  • Improves economic development through short-term jobs plus lower energy and water bills for local businesses

Planet

  • Protects biodiversity
  • Reduces potable water consumption
  • Reduces waste and CO2 emissions
  • Avoids resource depletion

Profitability

  • Greatly reduces energy and water consumption
  • Adds revenue streams
  • Eliminates expensive redundancies
  • Lowers operating and maintenance costs
  • Allows for easy, interoperable enhancements and expansions