Boral launches new carbon reporting service for concrete customers

Australia-based building materials producer Boral has launched a new automated carbon reporting service to provide customers with detailed information on the embodied carbon emissions associated with concrete supplied to construction projects.

The new service consolidates emissions data into a single report for individual projects or customer accounts, eliminating the need to manually compile information from multiple environmental product declarations (EPDs). Reports include total embodied carbon emissions and product-level breakdowns, enabling customers to monitor their carbon footprint and identify opportunities for emissions reductions.

The reporting system uses customer delivery records and Boral's internal database to calculate embodied carbon across the supply chain. This includes emissions associated with raw materials, concrete production and transportation between facilities and to construction sites.

According to Boral, the service will support project-level and portfolio-wide carbon assessments, helping customers meet increasingly stringent sustainability reporting requirements, including those relating to Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

Dr Ali Nezhad, Boral's head of sustainability and innovation, said the growing emphasis on decarbonisation was increasing demand for accurate and accessible emissions data. "By giving our customers clearer information about the embodied carbon in the products they use, we can help them report more confidently and make decisions that support their own emissions reduction goals."

The new reporting capability complements Boral's existing EPD On Demand service, which provides project-specific, independently verified EPDs. According to the company, automated data generation enables these to be delivered within 72 hours, compared with more than three months using conventional manual processes.

Boral added that the improved reporting capabilities will allow customers to track the benefits of ongoing emissions reductions in its cement and concrete production more quickly.