{"id":39347,"date":"2026-07-17T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=39347"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:30:17","slug":"nbsinfra-and-nbsapi-a-new-digital-bridge-for-building-greener-and-more-resilient-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2026\/07\/17\/nbsinfra-and-nbsapi-a-new-digital-bridge-for-building-greener-and-more-resilient-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"NBSINFRA and NBSAPI: A new digital bridge for building greener and more resilient cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning environmental projects and nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, often runs into a technological problem \u2013 they involve a multitude of different software tools that cannot easily exchange information with each other. <!--more-->This challenge is addressed by <strong>NBSINFRA toolkit and NBSAPI interface<\/strong>, which function as a universal digital bridge allowing different programs to communicate and share data using one common language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this tool important for communities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This connection helps cities accurately measure the real-world benefits of green spaces, such as their ability to cool the air or absorb rainwater during severe storms. By <strong>provides clear data on scientific impacts and costs<\/strong>, helps local leaders make smarter decisions to build healthier, more resilient neighborhoods. The primary users who benefit from this unified system and can collaborate more effectively are: <strong>urban planners, environmental scientists and software developers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does the system work in practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NBSAPI serves as a driving force for urban resilience, while <strong>its first practical implementation is the Shadepoint application<\/strong>. Using these tools, planners and ordinary residents can plot natural solutions (e.g., rain gardens or urban forests) directly onto a digital map and visualize how they would fit into their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>NBSAPI then acts as a scientific interoperability layer in the background, measuring the precise impact of these proposals, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how significantly <strong>reduce the local temperature<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>what quantity <strong>rainwater they can retain<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>how effectively they can <strong>filter pollutants<\/strong> from the environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key technological elements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Performance and financial tracking:<\/strong> The system measures not only environmental impacts but also costs associated with construction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Standardized data exchange:<\/strong> Common geographic formats are used to precisely define the boundaries and shapes of green solutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comprehensive management:<\/strong> The tool can organize multiple sub-solutions into comprehensive projects so that overall goals can be tracked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To ensure the professional quality of designs, the system includes a verification tool that <strong>checks that all data meets strict technical standards<\/strong>. Because the data uses a standardized digital language, these community plans can be directly exported to advanced engineering software for real-world construction needs.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative project is <strong>funded by the European Union<\/strong>. The lead partner of the consortium is <strong>Geodesignhub<\/strong> and the technical partner is <strong>UCD<\/strong>. More information about the project is available on the official website. <strong>nbsinfra.eu<\/strong>.<em><strong> JRi&amp;CO2AI\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning environmental projects and nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, often runs into a technological problem \u2013 they involve a multitude of different software tools that cannot easily exchange information with each other.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39349,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39347\/revisions\/39349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}