How Lisa Oberaigner – our founder at Emidat – uses AI to monitor and reduce CO2 emissions in construction materials

Concrete and steel create a lot of buildings – a lot of CO2, too. Now, new EU regulations require builders and developers to disclose just how dirty their building materials are. Many contractors don't have a clue. Meet Lisa Oberaigner, one of our founders at Emidat – a software start-up that helps manufacturers measure – and reduce – the environmental harm of building materials. To do so, Lisa measures the carbon emitted from creating the building materials, and next identifies how and where in the supply chain a manufacturer can reduce it. Her software uses AI to quickly and accurately create these reports. "What we offer today is a platform where the manufacturer can automatically feed in this data from their systems, then the declarations are autogenerated," she said. "It shortens the time from roughly a year to a week."