Biocity Health Index

An important part of the process in achieving urban sustainability is the measurement of relative urban health. New metric tools for assessing the isolated micro environmental and cultural impact of individual buildings have appeared but these are not coupled to any overarching regional metric.

Biocity proposes the introduction of a new metric tool that captures critical quantitative and qualitative data called The Biocity Health Index.

This index is currently under construction. Current indices on city competiveness are based on traditional fossil fuel based indicators and are usually tied to arbitrary GDP or lifestyle parameters. The Biocity index will rate a broad range of subsystems that fall under the twelve main systems.