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Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting
Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate —
Consider how many declarations would be needed to comprehensively cover all the components involved in just a single construction project, and it’s easy to see why a scalable platform that’s able to automate key stages of the EPD process — to both speed it up and radically shrink the cost of reporting — could be transformative in delivering data much more quickly and getting much more of the built environment disclosing critical information on climate impact. Commenting in a statement, Samuel Beyer, investor at the firm, said: “We see Emidat as a turnkey solution for decarbonizing the mission-critical built environment from the ground up; it will increasingly function as a collaborative platform where the industry can collectively access and exchange material data. Asked how she thinks the built environment will change — as we get a better handle on the environmental impacts of different construction materials — she points to “sustainable concrete” as key to decarbonizing the sector, as well as agreeing that wooden buildings are likely to become a lot more common.
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