Firstplanit provides a digital platform that simplifies the selection of sustainable building materials by consolidating product data and impact metrics, enabling users to align choices with environmental, health, and resource efficiency goals. The tool addresses the challenge of making informed procurement decisions in the construction industry, significantly reducing time spent on research and enhancing compliance with green building standards.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
The construction industry faces challenges in efficiently selecting sustainable building materials due to fragmented product data and a lack of standardized impact metrics. This makes it difficult to make informed procurement decisions that align with environmental, health, and resource efficiency goals, leading to time-consuming research and potential non-compliance with green building standards.
Solution
Firstplanit offers a digital platform designed to streamline the selection of sustainable building materials by consolidating product data and impact metrics. The platform enables users to easily align material choices with environmental, health, and resource efficiency goals, facilitating rapid decarbonization and future-proofing of building projects. By providing a centralized hub for comparing materials against various sustainability criteria, Firstplanit significantly reduces the time and cost associated with researching and documenting sustainable procurement practices. The platform also fosters collaboration among stakeholders, ensuring that entire project teams are aligned on impactful choices from concept to handover.
Target Audience
Firstplanit targets procurement/facilities managers, designers/architects, sustainability advisors, large businesses, developers/property managers, contractors/project managers, small & medium businesses, government/public/NGO institutions, and homeowners.
Features
- Comprehensive database of independently evaluated sustainable materials and products.
- Tools to assess environmental risks of a location, including air, noise, heat, and flood risk.
- Project planning and co-creation features for collaborative material selection.
- Reporting and analytics to connect material decisions to green targets like Net Zero, ESG, LEED, BREEAM, and WELL.
- Streamlined material and product comparison against environmental, health, performance, and financial criteria.
- Integration of GIS environmental risk maps to assess location-specific impacts.
- Features to generate detailed impact reports, material passports, and O&M manuals.
- Support for embodied carbon reduction, waste reduction, circularity, responsible sourcing, and healthy building practices.