CarbonBuzz has been awarded a three-year match funding grant from the Technology Strategy Board. The £750,000 total project cost will cover the development of the platform into an 'authoritative' database for CO₂ emissions of buildings in the UK and abroad.

Project partners include RIBA, CIBSE, BRE, Aedas, FCB Studios, AECOM, Davis Langdon, Autodesk, XCO2 Energy and University College London. The project is supported by CABE, the Carbon Trust and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

Judit Kimpian, Aedas' Head of Sustainability and Advanced Modelling and CarbonBuzz's Project Leader, said: "With the introduction of multiple readings and capturing actions that lead to changes in energy use over time, users will be able to track changes in a building's energy consumption against contributing factors from acquisition all the way to end of life. Future updates will allow design predictions to be uploaded directly from mainstream analysis software and organisations will be able to benchmark their portfolios interactively and manage CO₂ savings online. An improved user interface will highlight discrepancies between forecast and actual CO₂ emissions and the scale of occupant impact on energy use."

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