A close look at the GEnUSiS (Green Environmental Urban Simulations for Sustainability) project, which aims to empower urban planner, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with the necessary state-of-the-art tools to implement science-based sustainability solutions to achieve better urban designs.

Authors: Bhagirath Addepalli, Eric R. Pardyjak, P. Willemsen, S.A. Halverson, D.E. Johnson, and R. Stoll. Published in the November 2013 edition of em -The Magazine for Environmental Managers.  Addepalli, Pardyjak and Stoll are with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah; Willemsen and Halverson are both with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; and Johnson is with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah.

Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1134580 and 1133590.