Smarter Cities with DBF Engine
DBF integrates urban data with sustainability metrics and tools like the Urbn Index to empower city planners. Through Scenario Planning and alignment with Quality of Life programs, we help shape Lifetime projects that deliver more livable, resilient urban environments.
City planners and government agencies face an overwhelming amount of data that is often silod, demographics, amenity planning, green access, infrastructure allocation, heat-island performance, environmental metrics, and more. DBF Engine processes and analyzes a wide range of authoritative and or open source datathis data to generate actionable recommendations, helping planners make informed decisions. Creating in-house quick scenarios and reporting supported by LLM’s enhance workflows in unprecedented ways.
Our platform enables:
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Identify vulnerable zones and mitigate climate-related risks, heatisland, air pollution and more.
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Model the impact of urban policies on different demographic groups and the amenity support needed.
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Identify vulnerable zones and mitigate climate-related risks, heatisland, air pollution and more.
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Simulate and visualize various mobility models to identify bottlenecks and optimize transit systems.
Promote sustainable growth by balancing density, green spaces, and mobility to reduce carbon footprints.
Minimize errors and improve project outcomes by integrating AI-driven insights into decision-making processes.
Enhance urban accessibility by aligning planning with 15-minute city principles, ensuring equitable access to essential services.
Cities face major challenges—from climate breakdown and resource scarcity to rapid urbanization and inequality. At Digital Blue Foam, we empower planners with intelligent insights to design resilient, inclusive, and sustainable cities.
Model the impact of different growth strategies to ensure balanced development that meets environmental and social goals.
Analyze and optimize multimodal transport networks to improve accessibility and reduce congestion in urban cores including cost benefit analysis.
Identify high-risk zones, effects of Heat-islands and create resilient infrastructure plans to protect vulnerable populations either in growth or when shrinking.
Ensure zoning policies address population growth while maintaining affordable housing and green-open space accesscoverage.
Simulate the impact of new infrastructure projects on urban systems to minimize disruptions and improve service delivery and understand the impact on carbon emission and noise polution.
Sustainability in building design is how efficiently the building saves resources while being built and in operation. A building is designed as per functional and aesthetic requirements. Still, it becomes sustainable only when it is a building that doesn’t add to the amount of carbon and doesn’t waste resources, and many more criteria that help the environmental health. Some aspects that are taken care of are life cycle assessment and structure design efficiency. A Life Cycle Assessment is the systematic analysis of the potential environmental impacts of products or services during their entire life cycle. Apart from this, attention is paid to details like material efficiency, waste reduction, and leaving over the most negligible carbon footprint. Water efficiency and energy efficiency are managed through various methods. There are many steps taken to make sure that the users would have indoor environmental quality enhanced, and the building could achieve thermal comfort.
Urban planning places all the features, including buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods, etc., in a town or city. Sustainable urban planning refers to planning to locate the parts of town so that people can witness green buildings, mixed-use developments, walkable neighborhoods, open spaces, alternative energy sources, transit options, accessible amenities while keeping a balance with being approachable, attractive, and environment friendly. A sustainable urban environment also conforms to the idea that a city can be organized without excessive reliance on the surrounding countryside and power itself with renewable sources of energy. Self-sufficiency and resilience are also some factors that cities and towns can achieve to be sustainable. The concept of 15-minute cities encourages sustainable urban planning while keeping the infrastructure accessible to all. These cities have all the amenities a regular household needs within 15 minutes of walking or bicycling and are a great way to reduce dependence on motor vehicles.
To create a sustainable building, we need to check that the building leaves a minuscule carbon footprint. The AEC industry is responsible for 40% of carbon emissions in the world. So, to create a sustainable building, we need to make sure of some basic parameters. First of all, the construction material should be eco-friendly and robust. The waste generated from the building should be treated concerning the environment. As designers, there are many factors in designing that can affect the sustainability of a building, which can be creatively handled. Orientation of buildings and the fenestrations as per the sun-path and increasing natural daylight reduce artificial sources. Also, alternate energy sources like solar energy can be tapped for saving more on energy. The right amount of planned ventilation can help maintain thermal comfort and indoor air quality. Using some particular building techniques can help the labor and building process by being reusable and easy to use.
We provide, precise and up-to-date, wind analysis and solar studies for any given site location and time period.
Solar studies involve shadow and radiation analysis, and dynamic daylight metrics like Daylight Autonomy (DA) and Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA). You can focus on comparing sustainability of different design options and creating value for your clients, without worrying about any setup requirements.
We are a team of scientific, polymaths, designers, and coders, driving the next revolution in complex urban planning and design.
