Catalysing Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Construction – Building a Sustainable Future

As India’s construction sector faces unprecedented growth demands, financing the transition to sustainable building practices has emerged as a critical challenge. With 51% of the population expected to live in urban centres by 2047 and an urgent need to address the current housing shortage of 19 million units, finding innovative financial mechanisms for low-carbon construction is essential for India’s journey …

Limestone Calcined Clay Cement – An Outlook for Adoption in India

As India’s cement industry grapples with decarbonisation challenges, Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) emerges as a promising solution for sustainable construction. With the sector contributing 6% of India’s fossil fuel and industrial CO2 emissions, there’s an urgent need for innovative, low-carbon alternatives. Build Ahead presents this comprehensive paper examining LC3‘s adoption potential in India. The report explores the technical properties, environmental …

Build Ahead launches Build Better, a new tool for construction developers in India to measure embodied carbon

The built environment in India comprising a huge 32% of the nation’s carbon emissions – and ‘embodied carbon’ a third of that contribution – addressing the challenge of carbon-intensive materials used in construction is critical. Today, Build Ahead is excited to launch its Build Better embodied carbon measurement tool as an important step to understand, measure, and tackle our ambitions …

Building a greener future for our cities from the ground up

The built environment, that comprises of real estate and infrastructure, accounts for 40% of global carbon emissions, necessitating urgent action to decarbonise construction and building operations, and achieve the stated objective of sectoral decarbonisation by 2050, through scalable solutions. Given the extent of emissions created by the sector, urgent action to decarbonise our production, use, operation, and end-of-life processing of …