Be on board
Whether you are a building owner, developer, procurement officer, architect, designer, sustainability leader, or simply an enthusiast looking for more sustainable ways to build, you can be one of the first to try the Firstplanit platform for FREE. It's a simple, fast, and free way to design, specify and plan sustainable buildings.
Firstplanit is for building owners, occupiers, developers, and designers:
- Assess the environmental risks of a building location on occupants and buildings, and get recommendations on the most suitable products for positive impact reporting.
- Search 1,000s of sustainable products, all analysed for Environmental, Social, Health & Monetary Impact.
- Compare, organise, manage project product inventory in one place.
- Engage with Building owners and occupants early to celebrate even 1 better building decision- no need to model a building to identify the positive impact of product choices.
Firstplanit is for Building product manufacturers and suppliers:
- Join 1,000s of the UK's most trusted sustainable building products in our novel materials library.
- Demonstrate your product's trailblazing sustainability credentials, with impact and benefit scores charted within our patented Impact Index.
- Help designers, specifiers, builders and owners understand how your product will be impactful in the areas that matter most to them, e.g. Environment, Social, Health or Monetary Impact.
How can you sign up?
Follow the link to our website to sign up as a manufacturer/ supplier or a project planner.
You can also schedule a 20 minutes demo with us using the booking link below.
During the demo, one of our team members will help you set up your account either as a business to activate your FREE listing/ register your products and become a Green Supporter or as a project planner to utilize the eco-friendly material library and project planner itself.
About us
Firstplanit serves the built and construction industry with cutting-edge research in health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Our patent-pending innovation delivers several impact indices with quantifiable Environmental, Social, Health, and Monetary scores using 50,000 real-world data points.
Who's behind Firstplanit?
Firstplanit started at University College London (UCL). We are dedicated to reducing the harmful impacts of buildings
We bring together expertise from many fields; sustainable architecture, construction, material science, environmental modelling, data analytics, behavioural science, historic conservation, energy engineering, digital technology and commercial strategy. We are adept at critical and design thinking. We bring an intense creative approach to problem-solving. We have synthesised our knowledge to create an unparalleled algorithm to revolutionise the built space and to promote the health of the planet.
Firstplanit’s advisers are from University College London (UCL), World Resources Institute (WRI), Building Research Establishment (BRE).
Our approach
- Independent: All the products listed on Firstplanit are independently selected and evaluated. Typical sustainable product credentials are either too vague or too technical, broad or biased. This makes it impossible to gauge an item's actual environment, health or economic impact. Firstplanit provides a transparent rubric for quantifying the impact and benefits of any given material.
- Novel: We have dug deep to solve roadblocks to the uptake of sustainable and healthy strategies and building products. We have developed a novel patented methodology that generates an Impact index and a Benefit index for any single Product or material choice. This way we can measure, report and celebrate every positive choice.
- Only Positive Impact Products: We have conducted one of the widest studies on the distribution of building materials and products. Our outputs include 1000s of sustainable products covering over 50,000 data points that contribute towards Environmental, Social, Health and Monetary Impacts. And this is just the beginning of where we need to be as an industry.
- Transparent Equitable Impact reporting: We are un-greenwashing because we have created transparency in the way we evaluate the impact of products. We want everyone to find and trust products that have positive impacts compared to less sustainable alternatives, and find ones that are most important in the areas that matter most, e.g. Environmental, Social, Health or Monetary Impact.
- Continuously Improving: We want to continually grow and improve what we have started here. Using, sharing and asking for more information will create needed, trust, confidence and accountability. Most importantly we will be able to measure progress in our industry, and support manufacturing trailblazers.
- Unique, Robust & Useful: Firstplanit connects you to crucial explanations of the long-term environmental, social, health, and economic impact of particular choices - helping make your decisions with knowledge and care. The best decisions are those that fit the project, site and location. Positive impacts are context-driven and we help you understand and measure them.
