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Headquarters location
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Year founded
2021
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Company Description

Climate change is enforcing companies to pledge toward net-zero carbon. However, companies in design and construction sectors experience a weak evidence base when demonstrating the carbon cost versus benefits to their clients. They need significant time investment in iterating different combinations of materials, layouts, Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) solutions, while continuously updating the specifications of each design scheme. Secondly, they may offload their work to external consultants or ease it by attending professional training, however this takes significant time and money. For instance, many companies reach out to sustainability specialists for guidance and accelerate their decision-making. But this raises at least 5% of the project cost. Also, professional training programs involve a series of lectures that are difficult to follow over a short span of time. Thirdly, the results of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) from existing software are inconsistent. This is more pronounced for stages A5 (construction stage), B1-B6 (operation), C1-C4 (Deconstruction), and D (reusability), where universal assumptions are applied instead of adaptive settings to address specific projects pertaining to different backgrounds. This brings up to 210% calculation difference of the whole life cycle across various software.Looper is an AI-powered carbon management software to automate the carbon accounting and management workload. The software can quickly calculate and visualise carbon footprint of different elements within various design schemes, providing real-time carbon-cost analysis to help team members demonstrate evidence-based results to their clients. The software is mainly built as a web-based application with spreadsheet-based functionality to help small and medium-sized architect firms, but also offers seamless integration with BIM workflow (Revit) to fit complex projects with big enterprise firms.