Innovation Lab
The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Innovation Lab works like an architect during the initial phase of Integrated Infrastructure and Industrial Symbiosis projects, transforming what would have been business as usual into business done better.
CSI’s Innovation Lab helps local leaders to catalyze and develop projects that deliver powerful benefits for local business, sustainability, and community together. If you are a leader with the local public works division, port district, economic development agency, utility, or city/county council, the Innovation Lab can help you get much more bang for your infrastructure buck.
Capturing cost savings and enhanced environmental performance from your project takes planning, resource identification, consensus building and the application of proven best practices. By breaking down silos and identifying innovative ways to convert resource ‘waste’ into cost savings and value, the Innovation Lab jump-starts your Integrated Infrastructure project.
The Innovation Lab’s team is your partner in planning and designing your project during the crucial early stages, when the opportunities for real innovation are greatest. And since each project is location and industry specific, our Innovation Lab deploys the right expertise with proven best practices at the right phase of the project.
Depending on the needs of your organization, our planning, facilitation, design, and project management services may include:
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Project scoping and planning
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Energy, water, and material resource mapping
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Stakeholder consensus building
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Technology and infrastructure options analysis and prioritization
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Cost and feasibility assessment
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Advising on assembling local, state, federal, utility, and private financing
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Establishing performance metrics and monitoring plans
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Support through early stages of project implementation
The Innovation Lab has successfully catalyzed Integrated Infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest that have helped partner communities reimagine over $300 million worth of infrastructure investments and attract $100 million in outside funding support.
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