Concrete industry’s work on reducing climate impact towards net-zero roadmap by 2045
Betcrete, chose the Ecometrix platform as a solution for the Swedish concrete industry’s need for reference data and KPIs for the industry’s progress. For this, the project has used the Ecometrix Industry and Company platform, which enabled collection, data security and comparability analyses according to the industry’s needs. The BETCRETE 3.0 project continues in many parts and includes many major initiatives within the industry and is expected to be completed in its entirety in 2025.
The Swedish concrete industry needed to join forces to be able to measure and follow up on the carbon footprint of sustainability initiatives in a relevant and transparent way. Many important initiatives are underway through Betcrete, and the industry needs to find a baseline and understand how the initiatives affect overall greenhouse gas emissions. They had identified five key KPIs that drive carbon usage and were looking for a good platform to securely track status and progress. The discussion about KPIs is ongoing and evolving continuously within Betcrete.
”Ecometrix, through its platform, enables Betcrete to understand the industry’s progress, both at the company level and how that journey looks compared to the goals set in the Concrete Industry’s roadmap towards net zero by 2045”
Katarina Malaga, research leader RISE
The BETCRETE-project
We used the Ecometrix Industry and Company reporting and analytics framework to address Betcrete’s need for a secure methodology to compare company data without breaching confidentiality. We customized the KPI calculations based on the “levers” identified by the concrete industry to create an industry-relevant solution.
Several of the largest concrete producers in Sweden can now track and compare their carbon emissions to understand where progress is being made and where further efforts are needed to reach the industry’s and companies’ goals for climate-neutral concrete by 2045. Betcrete 3.0 runs until January 2025 and the work on following up on KPIs will be published before the project is completed.
The project in summary
Relevant & Specific
- Produced concrete volumes (m3/year) total and per durability class.
- Precast concrete. Including and excluding reinforcement.
- GWP (kg C02-eq/m3)
- Clinker factor (kg/m3)
Safe & reliable
- Ecometrix led the process of developing the KPIs together with companies in the industry.
- The KPIs use data in a secure and reliable manner so that all parties can confidentially share their data in a secure manner. This has been a key factor in the success of the work.
Comparable
- We have a dataset from 2020 to see if we are on the right track.
- We have achieved transparency in the industry and can better anticipate the effects of ongoing development initiatives.
- All companies can compare themselves against the industry as a whole.
