The EcoMethod™ delivers the triple bottom line results
that your clients want.
The EcoMethod™ is a software product and template program that is US patent pending. This “tool-kit” is the first of its kind to enable users to find local sourcing options for their construction projects, anticipate the economic development and carbon footprints for each resource and organize that data into the EcoPlan™, a cutting-edge decision making tool.
Project Managers and estimators can now use the EcoMethod™ on their construction projects to:
- Promote local spending and increase local jobs
- Increase disadvantaged contractor participation
- Reduce environmental impacts
The EcoMethod’s robust methodology and easy to use templates deliver timely and accurate information to decision makers.
Target Local Economic Opportunities
The EcoMethod™ allows users to easily delineate where a construction project’s benefit area should begin and end. This benefit area criterion enables the program to calculate the net benefits and impacts for resource options both within and outside of the defined benefit area.
Locate Major Supply Chains, Subcontractors
Our custom database includes local subcontractors and major supply chains for each geographic region. The Resource Locator software module enables users to easily search for qualified resources near the jobsite and regionally. The resulting resource profiles and logistical information are automatically loaded into our economic and carbon calculator modules.
Calculate Economic benefits and Carbon emissions
The EcoMethod™ guides the user through a series of modules to create conceptual scenarios or formulate specific footprints for their projects. Users can easily create and analyze alternate material, equipment and logistics strategies through the EcoMethod’s built-in alternatives analysis features. Our industry expertise and the best available science combine to deliver the best carbon calculator for construction projects and one of the only project specific economic footprinting tools.
Communicate with subcontractors and suppliers
Our bidding templates provide users with the tools they need to instruct bidders about the required reporting and competitive criteria for the project. Using these tools, subcontractors and suppliers will understand that the most compelling bid must contain both a low price and the best possible supply chain implications. Using our Good, Better, Best bid forms, users get competitive prices, free and low cost efficiency upgrades and the information necessary to identify the relative economic and carbon implications of each bidder.
Identify value propositions
What key strategies will increase the economic benefits to the local area? How can decision makers reduce the project’s carbon footprint and which strategies are the most affordable and effective? The EcoMethod™ provides a practical way for contractors to identify and present options to their clients that will connect with their client’s larger goals and organizational mission.
Make informed decisions
Decision makers need effective tools to establish and communicate the specific costs and value associated with each sourcing option. The Eco2Plan™ software module uses local data and user-defined goal weights to normalize opportunities and simplify the bid qualification process. The Eco2Score™ provides a much-needed language that the project manager, sustainability coordinator, economic development agency and disadvantaged contractor coordinators can use to align their interests.
EcoLogistics™ through the EcoMethod™ will:
- Support local businesses, retain and create local jobs and increase disadvantaged contractor participation
- Quantify the project’s risk to rising energy costs, carbon regulation
- Shorten approval and funding processes
- Improve your brand and give you a competitive advantage when bidding projects for public agencies and progressive clients.
- Present free and low-cost options to reduce construction related carbon emissions
A leadership opportunity
As the EcoMethod™ becomes the standard of construction due diligence, contractors will regularly engage their suppliers in a search for affordable options that promote local spending, increase recycled content and provide more efficient transport. Over a short period of time, thousands of Good, Better, Best bid forms will provide regionally specific baselines while increasing the availability and reducing any premium for sustainable construction sourcing options.
High construction unemployment, expensive and volatile energy costs, and a difficult approval and funding environment present both a challenge and an opportunity for the construction industry. In order to get the most out of your construction projects you need tools that are easy to use, reliable and cost-effective. EcoLogistics™ through the use of the EcoMethod™ is making construction projects more valuable and helping contractors connect with their clients.
Contact us to see how we can help you increase your revenue, cut your costs and increase the value of your brand.