Many of the developments in digital EIA have focused on creating digital versions of assessments, such as environmental statements and non-technical summaries. While this has helped to improve engagement and communication of the assessment outputs, it hasn’t necessarily made the assessment process more efficient or led to transformational change in how environmental assessment influences schemes.
In this presentation, Paul Morgalla discussed environmentally integrated design and Atkins’ approach to environmental assessment, enabled by better use of digital and data, bringing earlier consideration of the environment into the design process.