SRV to calculate construction’s environmental footprint

SRV is launching a research project in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä to calculate its environmental footprint. This footprint calculation is a continuation of SRV’s lifecycle-wise construction sites, as a result of which the company’s construction site emissions have decreased by 80 percent since 2022.

While the carbon footprint is already widely used in organizations to assess climate impacts, there are no equivalent tools yet for properly assessing the environmental footprint of construction. Therefore, SRV will be the first Finnish construction company to calculate its environmental footprint together with the University of Jyväskylä. The cities of Tampere and Espoo are also participating in the same research project, which will utilize the organizational environmental footprint calculation method developed at the University of Jyväskylä.

– The international scientific community has emphasized that solutions aimed at reducing harm should simultaneously take into account climate change and biodiversity loss. So far, widely used standards and suitable tools for calculating the environmental footprint are lacking, says Miimu Airaksinen, Development Director at SRV.

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