Quantification Tools
Symbiotic Engineering has a suite of tools designed to help clients better quantify, track, analyze, and report metrics related to their economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The tools are constructed using robust platforms that allow for customization to meet the unique needs of each client. Symbiotic Engineering’s tools are also developed to function as software-as-service thereby eliminating the need for clients to purchase new hardware or to install software on their systems unless they prefer to operate everything in-house. As outlined below, Symbiotic Engineering has tools to report and address sustainability both on a company and on a community level.
Sustainability for your Company
Sustainability for your company includes examining the economic, environmental, and social impacts at all levels of your company ranging from energy use at facilities across the country to the life cycle impacts of individual products or buildings.
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CarbonCo uses the latest database technology to store and manage your GHG data. CarbonCo is equipped with powerful querying and reporting features that allow for detailed analyses while the GIS-based spatial mapping feature provides a dashboard view of facilities, critical data and other selected attributes. The sustainability metrics tracked in the tool can be customized to meet the needs of your company. |
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Built Carbon focuses on analyzing individual construction projects. By using Built Carbon, project managers can evaluate the embodied energy and embodied greenhouse gas emissions of proposed buildings and can run scenarios to determine how changes in material selection or material source locations can impact overall project impacts. |
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Symbiotic Engineering can conduct life cycle assessments (LCAs) of your company’s products and processes using the latest software and in accordance with the ISO 14040 series of standards. Symbiotic Engineering’s domestic and international LCA experience includes examining building materials, transportation systems, transportation fuels, and electricity generation. |
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provides a standard methodology for quantifying and reporting the economic, social, and environmental impacts of your company. Symbiotic Engineering is a GRI organizational stakeholder and can help your company develop GRI reports or can provide third party assurance for your corporate sustainability reports. |
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Sustainability for your Community
Increasing sustainability for your community requires both a top-down and a bottom-up approach. Symbiotic Engineering’s top-down tools provide sustainability managers and officials with powerful data analysis and reporting capabilities while the bottom-up tools facilitate community outreach to better engage local businesses and residents in sustainability initiatives.
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As a web-based tool, Carbon-State provides a platform to integrate environmental activity data with physical attributes of structures, e.g., age, size, cost, etc with standard emission factors for a common back end quantification of a carbon footprint per The Climate Registry (TCR) protocols. |
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The custom Carbon City portal allows for spatial mapping of all residents, businesses and exempt structures in a city and their associated physical attributes using geographic information system (GIS) tools and local parcel data. Environmental activity data is entered and tracked in native units (kWh, gallons, etc) and converted to greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Provides custom portals for distributing educational materials and local branding of sustainable business and community programs and removes the burden of developing data storage, reporting, and calculation tools from local sustainability programs. |
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