19th February 2024

Perega launches new Carbon Calculator

As part of our commitment to sustainable construction, we’re delighted to announce the launch of our new carbon accounting tool.

Empowering clients to evaluate the carbon footprint of their projects from concept stage to handover, this new service will help them and their supply chain to make greener material choices and achieve a cleaner built environment faster.

Wholesale carbon reduction has become an increasingly important goal for the UK construction sector over the past two decades. With the built environment still accounting for 40% of global emissions, consultants, product designers, manufacturers, contractors and asset owners alike realise that what was once a ‘nice-to-have’ is now non-negotiable.

At Perega, we take our client’s, and our own, climate goals incredibly seriously, always looking for ways to engineer a leaner, cleaner and greener future. This includes harnessing the power of the latest innovative, digital technology to shrink our collective carbon footprint, whilst simultaneously delivering exceptional services.

Emphasising this dual commitment to sustainability and skill, we have created an evolutionary carbon calculator. Developed by our Net Zero Carbon Group, the in-house Revit add-in is designed to assess emitted CO2 through sophisticated material data analysis.

Backed by a powerful set of algorithms, the calculator works using advanced scripting software to tap into a vast database of carbon factors in conjunction with the building model, and the materials specified. From here it creates a comparison between different schemes, and lower carbon options can be easily identified and analysed. Each scheme can be examined, high embodied carbon elements identified and scope for changes and improvement assessed.

The results are then presented in a user-friendly dashboard, giving a concise and informative carbon impact assessment, based on material type and volume specified within the model.

From here, materials can be reviewed, compared and assessed on their embodied carbon and changes made where the design allows, simplifying processes and time scales and therefore keeping costs down, updating the Revit model in real-time.

Importantly, the calculator means that our in-house technical experts can now swiftly advise clients on carbon reduction strategies, meeting both the design brief requirements and wider Net Zero 2050 targets.

As our Digital Engineering Lead, James Washbourne, puts it, “Our Carbon Calculator is another step towards achieving more sustainable projects. Moving away from manually crunching static spreadsheets to a largely automated process, working within BIM, allows us to better pinpoint carbon hotspots, empowering our clients to make considered material substitutions during the design phase, without compromising on quality.

Ensuring ease of use was crucial, our clients are incredibly busy and need to be able to read and understand the data quickly to make informed decisions. As such, we developed the calculator to deliver clear and simple comparisons for effective decision-making”.

Perega’s Carbon Calculator is just our latest sustainable solution now offered to help clients obtain lower-carbon results, whatever the size, scale, or scope of their project.

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