Sustainability in construction: during the construction phase
Buildings and the building construction sectors combined are responsible for a third of global final energy consumption and nearly 40% of direct and indirect CO2 emissions. So, our buildings and our built environment has a giant impact on whether the world is sustainable or will be preserved for future generations.
Even though we think of construction as this industry that pollutes and uses a ton of fuel and produces a ton of greenhouse gasses , it is actually poised to make one of the biggest effects on our climate future. And that influence the industry can have has so much to do with efficiency - to plan your routes better driving, excavating, to analyze machines and understand how you can make them more fuel efficient, to dive into our long-running processes and find things with data that don't need to be done. The excess, and there's a lot of it in construction.