Date of incorporation 16 Apr, 2020

Firstplanit

Green building design and product selection platform that enables the user to make sustainable building decisions to meet carbon and ESG targets with confidence.
Innovative Start-Up

Problem Addressed

Property owners, designers and developers cannot ignore crucial performance, health, and social impact information to suit a site, building and budget when they choose lower embodied carbon products and materials for buildings. But they are not trained in holistic impact assessments and don’t have time or budget for this work.

Existing tools either list products, not their impacts, or only offer carbon reports with a smattering of VOC and Recycled content information. Plus, there are more than 150 eco-labels targeting specifiers and a lot of greenwashing. But 80% of specifiers don’t understand what eco-labels or EPDs mandate or what 7kg Co2e/m2 means. Like-for-like comparisons, impact improvement, and reports are impossible without extremely comprehensive standardised models, transparency, and context.

Overview Of Start-up

Started at the UCL by a group of Architects, Engineers, Conservation architects and sustainability analysts, Firstplanit works as a standalone solution and outputs plug into carbon reports, ESG, LEED, BREEAM and WELL certifications and BIM models. The Firstplanit team is currently collaborating with several tools to offer many more integrations and automation for all types of building work and team set ups. Users can make green building decisions easy and quick with Firstplanit to meet Carbon and ESG targets with confidence.

Firstplanit offers tremendous value that takes 1% of the time it does today and costs 1% of what building teams and manufacturers would pay for today.

There are benefits for all stakeholders in a building team, with many free access features:

  • Free access to the materials library- data outputs and comparisons.
  • Free access to manufacturers and suppliers.
  • Project planners pay per project for detailed Impact Reports.
  • Manufacturers pay per product for detailed Impact Reports.

What Makes The Start-up Innovative

Firstplanit is a pioneering, powerful, comprehensive, yet extremely easy-to-use Green Building design and product selection platform that assesses assimilates, and simplifies complex information into a holistic impact landscape. Its patent-pending algorithms are set out in a transparent, rigorously researched, data-driven, personalised, user-friendly, free digital format.

With Firstplanit, building teams can collaborate, improve, and celebrate one sustainable decision at a time to break the all-or-nothing mindset, and deliver multifactorial reports across Environmental, Social, Health and Monetary scales in minutes.

How The Start-up Has Been Designed To Scale Up Quickly

Firstplanit algorithms and free features are designed to put contextualised green building product and material choices on every person’s finger tips, for any building, anywhere.

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