Architects, interior designers and urban planners can communicate their ideas to would-be clients using computer simulations. Such professionals use these ICT tools to evaluate design options, explore new ideas, check for compliance with building standards and perform cost analysis of a given project. Architects, interior designers and urban planners can accomplish a project with a high degree of accuracy because they can test their ideas at the conceptual stage with computer simulation tools.
Telecommuting is simply working from home using digital tools or working from a satellite location near your home such as a local park. Professionals such as software developers working from home have prompted environmental designers to come up with innovations such as the home office to create flexible working places. It has also given rise to innovations such as fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the curb (FTTC).
ICT development has led to technology parks and special economic zones -- digital innovation spaces where you live and work in exclusive zones equipped with a city's full amenities. Unlike many cities that have developed over centuries, technology parks sprout up overnight. Environmental designers are able to control the development process of these spaces as they evolve.
IT has given rise to a new concept of smart home systems. With the touch of a button or even a voice command from a central point, you can operate features such as lighting, heating and air conditioning among some features. Data cable management has also become an important part of corporate interior design. Other effects that ICT has had on environment design are seen in such innovations like access control equipment, automated water fountains and automated waterfalls.