Our story
Built from the model up
BuiltZERO started from a pattern we kept seeing on projects: the digital team and the sustainability team were modelling the same building, at the same time, and never speaking. The carbon assessment was rebuilt by hand from drawings that a federated model already described perfectly.
We founded the company to hold both scopes — so structured information feeds the assessment, the assessment informs design while it can still move, and the evidence trail is a by-product of the work rather than a second project.
What we hold to
Evidence over assertion
Every recommendation traces back to a model, a calculation or a standard. If we cannot evidence it, we do not claim it.
Early, where it counts
The decisions that move carbon and cost happen long before certification. We would rather be in the room at concept than auditing at completion.
Vendor-neutral
We take no software commissions and resell nothing. The tool recommendation you get is the one we would use ourselves.
Capability, not dependency
The engagement should leave your team more capable than it found them. We write the standards down and train the people who inherit them.