Sustainability & ESG apps for Construction, Engineering, and Real Estate

Industry: Construction, Engineering & Real Estate

Construction, Engineering, and Real Estate grapple with ESG challenges such as high GHG emissions and waste, social challenges like safety, labor practices, and DEI, all the way to complex supply chains with many stakeholders! These challenges are digital challenges, smart solutions are shaping the industry's sustainable future.

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The Sustaira Sustainability Circle is a high-level overview of what Sustaira offers. Sustaira has created building block applications within and between all of the domains of sustainability and ESG seen around the circle. These applications are meant to be tailored, tweaked, and customized to 100% meet the needs of the end user. The applications then live in the Sustaira launchpad that acts as a smart layer on top of your internal and external data sources. Bring your sustainability and ESG data together with a building block approach that eliminates manual processes and allows you the flexibility to grow and change throughout your sustainability journey.

Almost 40% of Global CO2 Emissions

Construction is directly or indirectly responsible for almost 40% of global CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion, and 25% of GHG emissions overall. Making it have one of the largest footprints.

83% of Occupiers
78% of Investors

In a recent survey by Jones Lang LaSalle, 83% of building occupiers and 78% of investors agreed that climate risk poses a clear financial risk within real estate.

16% Supplier
Visibility

When it comes to sustainable sourcing, 55% of engineering and construction companies have significant or complete visibility into their own processes, and only 16% have the same visibility into their suppliers’ processes.

Sustainability and ESG challenges within the Construction, Engineering and Real Estate industry

  • Large GHG Emitters and Waste

    In just about every industry, but especially in construction, engineering and real estate, organizations face a substantial challenge in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation. With diverse materials, extensive energy and water consumption, and intricate transportation networks, reducing the carbon footprint in this multifaceted sector is a formidable task.

  • Social Challenges

    Ensuring the safety and well-being of workers, addressing human rights concerns, and maintaining fair labor practices are paramount in the construction, engineering and real estate industry. Prioritizing worker safety and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across all stages of construction and procurement processes is critical.

  • Governance

    Compliance with a myriad of local, regional, and federal regulations is essential for the construction, engineering and real estate sectors. Furthermore, establishing partnerships with governing bodies to foster transparency and accountability within the industry is a key governance challenge.

  • Supply Chain Complexity

    The construction, engineering, and real estate industry's supply chain is highly intricate, involving numerous suppliers and subcontractors, even tenants. Aggregating data, meeting ESG standards, and promoting responsible sourcing within this complex ecosystem presents substantial challenges.

  • Stakeholder Engagement

    The construction, engineering and real estate industry encompasses a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including suppliers, customers, subcontractors, occupants, regulators, and investors. Effectively engaging and satisfying the diverse interests and expectations of these stakeholders is an ongoing and complex challenge.

  • Disparate or Siloed Data

    Often, data is spread across multiple systems or even users. This data is often even excel or email based. This means that there is no easy and efficient way to aggregate and manage that data nor make it actionable or insightful.

Sustainability & ESG Challenges are a Digital Issue

Shifting the Paradigm

Sustaira uses Siemens' Mendix low-code platform, striking a balance between inflexible off-the-shelf solutions and time-consuming custom coding. With a building-block approach and reusable templates, Sustaira offers a customizable accelerator, bridging the gap between pre-made solutions and fully tailored projects, delivering flexibility without compromising efficiency.

The business challenges outlined above put a tremendous amount of pressure on the digital capabilities within organizations. This is everything from supply chain transparency, calculating GHG footprint, data aggregation and awareness, and ever-changing requirements around ESG data transparency needs. Typically, these core challenges translate back to a lack of flexible solutions that are instead replaced by a myriad of off-the-shelf solutions that only somewhat address the needs of the organization. It’s a lack of IT solutions that can truly deliver the value needed, without creating new challenges or expanding an already tangled workflow. So how are we going to solve and tackle these things?

Jenny Moshea, Sellen’s Chief Information Officer.

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘢’𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘢’𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢-𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.”

Angi Rivera, Sellen’s Director of Sustainability.

“𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰-𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳’𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

Sustainability and ESG Solutions for Construction, Engineering & Real Estate

Carbon and Emissions Accounting Scope 1, 2 and 3: Measuring impact throughout your supply chain

The Carbon Accounting Application is used by organizations to get an overview of their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Allowing organizations to make informed decisions around their sustainability efforts, not only internally, but throughout their supply chain. To do this, the carbon accounting module uses answers from our survey to build a reflexive dashboard that highlights action items to calculate the impact environmentally and financially. Dive into Scope 3 and open this up to your suppliers or external stakeholders as well!

Data Aggregation

Create your single source of Sustainability and ESG data with Sustaira’s Launchpad. Each tile represents an application, custom project, or other software. Bring everything together in a single, agile, smart layer, that sits on top of the systems you’re already using.
This launchpad is meant to work WITH what you already have. Have an application or system that you love for one piece of your sustainability journey? We can add a tile to the Launchpad for that piece and bring everything together.

Custom Sustainability and ESG Apps

There are unique projects that require extensive specialization expertise and attention. For those, our expert development team can take your ideas and bring them to life. Our team uses an Agile Methodology and works alongside your team the entire time. Have something special brewing? Let us help.

Goal Setting & KPI Tracking

The Sustaira Projects & KPI module is designed with pre-built projects and tracking KPIs related to sustainable initiatives. Tied to the U.N. goals for sustainability or the framework of your choosing, you can assess the impact and ease of change with our QuickStart Survey, selecting those goals that you are most interested in. Then, choose from a buffet of pre-configured projects and KPIs to quickly add to your sustainability roadmap.

Sustainability Supplier Management

The Sustaira Sustainability Supplier Management solution is designed for quantitative and qualitative data intake and interaction with your suppliers. If you’re still using spreadsheets and emails to remind suppliers to submit ESG and Sustainability information, this solution is for you. Everything in this template is customizable and can be tailored towards your unique needs. Whether you use a questionnaire/survey or a data intake overview, it’s all possible. You can set actions, reminders and different data input parameters per supplier. This includes reporting and actionable insights.

Additional Resources

Stay up to date on the latest Sustainability and ESG news with Sustaira!

Watch Sustaira’s Webinar, How Sellen Construction is Solving the Top ESG and Sustainability Challenges Through Digitalization with Sustaira featuring Sellen Construction!

Learn about how a Low-code Building Block Approach for Sustainability and ESG Software is the necessary paradigm shift!

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