Giving residential builders, self-builders, architects & building merchants the opportunity to simply, and effectively, offset the carbon of their upcoming projects.
ProQuant Estimating – the UK’s leading residential estimating service – has developed and launched the UK’s first ever climate positive carbon offsetting residential estimation tool.
This unique tool will now be used, at no additional cost, as standard practice within ProQuant’s estimating documents for their customer base, including some 10,000 + builders, self-builders, architects and merchants.
As a part of this industry, and a forward-thinking company, ProQuant was compelled to act upon discovering the construction industry as a whole is responsible for 38% of global carbon emissions. ProQuant set about designing this service to provide accessible & affordable climate positivity within the residential building trade, for both builders and clients.
In doing so, ProQuant aims to provide builders and architects with a positive new offer to take to their customers. This simple and precise tool will enable them to create climate positive building projects such as extensions or new builds, helping to make a real contribution to addressing this alarming statistic.
As well as helping the nation’s builders, architects and merchants to raise awareness, the tool also incentivises and simplifies a climate-conscious approach for customers, helping them to ensure that their own businesses are operating climate positively.
As an example, a typical extension produces 20 tonnes of embodied carbon. To create a climate positive build, such as by planting additional trees on top of the minimum amount required for carbon neutrality, a climate contribution of approximately £90 is required, equating to circa 0.5% of the total contract price.
The feedback ProQuant have collected from recent uptake of this service shows this cost is deemed appropriate, and is therefore highly appealing to customers.
The embodied carbon emissions are totally relative to the size of the project, and the climate positive contribution reflects this due to the accuracy of the calculator.
