From Complexity to Clarity: How ViridiPath is Transforming Whole Life Carbon Management

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The demand for Whole Life Carbon assessments (WLCAs) is growing rapidly, driven by stricter planning requirements, evolving industry standards and the urgent need to decarbonise the built environment. As highlighted by RIBA recently, the current approach to carbon management is plagued by inefficiencies, inconsistencies and a reliance on outdated manual processes.

At ViridiPath, we have developed real-time Whole Life Carbon tracking software that directly addresses these challenges. By shifting from static, spreadsheet-based assessments to dynamic, interactive data management, our software empowers developers and consultants to make informed, data-driven decisions throughout the project lifecycle.

Solving the Industry’s Key Challenges

Managing Multiple Carbon Assessments

Authorities and developers are increasingly demanding multiple WLCAs throughout a project, from early-stage optioneering to post-completion evaluations. Managing these assessments manually is cumbersome and time-intensive.

How ViridiPath helps:

  • Primarily, and most importantly, ViridiPath tracks changes in emissions over time. This helps teams understand the impact of design decisions through the design and construction stages of a project.
  • Our tracking software enables seamless comparison of multiple assessments at different stages. It provides clear insights into the changes between assessments and easy to understand narratives on the implications of decisions made at different stages of projects.
  • ViridiPath provides a consistent approach to WLC data management across projects, ensuring confusion and inefficiencies are reduced.

Improving Transparency and Data Quality

Clients often struggle to interpret carbon assessments due to inconsistent methodologies, lack of clear reporting and unexplained discrepancies between similar projects.

How ViridiPath helps:

  • Standardises carbon data, making it easier to compare projects and track progress.
  • Provides transparent, user-friendly dashboards that explain variations in emissions.
  • Allows users to drill down into specific data points, empowering better decision-making.

Reducing Manual Work for Consultants

Sustainability consultants spend hours managing spreadsheets and preparing reports, only to face difficult questions they can’t immediately answer. This is often due to data limitations; from the lack of tools to easily visualise and interpret the data.

How ViridiPath helps:

  • ViridiPath automates carbon assessment outputs, assessment comparisons, reduction opportunities on a tracked timeline linking the output to defined project stages reducing reliance on manual spreadsheets.
  • Our software provides real-time updates, ensuring the latest assessment is always accessible.
  • Visualisations and reports are instantly generated, making stakeholder communication seamless.

Bridging the Performance Gap Between Design and Construction

A major frustration for developers is the disparity between early-stage carbon estimates and actual construction outcomes. The lack of robust tracking tools leads to missed opportunities for reduction and understanding.

How ViridiPath helps:

  • Tracking Whole Life Carbon performance across design and construction stages enables instantaneous comparisons and insights.
  • Carbon hotspots can be identified in design and construction stages ensuring early reduction targets are met, design decisions can be tracked against targets and benchmarks and the effects of procurement and the supply chain can be analysed.
  • Centralises multiple Whole Life Carbon datasets for a single point of data management.
  • Enables project-level carbon assessments to be seamlessly aligned with organisational carbon strategies and science-based targets.

Unlocking the True Potential of Whole Life Carbon Data

By eliminating data silos and making carbon management more accessible, ViridiPath allows project teams, developers, asset owners and investors to shift from reactive reporting to proactive reduction strategies.

Key Benefits of ViridiPath:

  • Efficiency & Cost Savings – Reduces administrative burden, saving valuable time.
  • Enhanced Accuracy – Provides a structured, consistent approach to WLCA reporting.
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making – Empowers teams with real-time insights.
  • Improved Stakeholder Confidence – Enhances transparency and trust in carbon performance data.

The industry is struggling with fragmented, complex carbon data processing and an inability to effectively use the data. ViridiPath is changing that — bringing clarity, efficiency and impact to Whole Life Carbon management.

Discover how ViridiPath Whole Life Carbon tracking software can transform your construction projects.