Edm Environmental Design & MGMT Limited

edm environmental design and management limited is a planning, design and engineering firm that provides cost effective and sustainable solutions to problems related to the human use of land. the firm uses gis as a tool to help produce planning and design solutions for clients in the same way that many design firms use cad systems. the process typically involves a detailed assessment of a planning or design issue, and the identification of key variables that can be modelled in order to provide the client with an appropriate solution. a gis database is then constructed based on existing data and new data collected by third parties under edm's direction (e.g., ecosystem classifications, eater quality data, etc.) edm understands that the cost associated with building a database can take a large portion of any project budget. all too often data are collected because they are available, not because they influence the final planning or design decision. this results in an inefficient use of r