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About Us

Firstplanit team serves the built and home improvement industry with cutting-edge research in health, wellbeing, and sustainability.

We've engineered our algorithms to combine in-field expertise with powerful tech to help execute any building project at the highest standard of health and eco-consciousness.

Our Mission

We want to rapidly improve the impact of building on people and planet.

And so we strive to empower every designer, builder, developer, property owner and manufacturer with insights and opportunities for environmental awareness and positive change.

We Deliver

Localised Information

We help identify current and
future environmental and health risks
around a particular site.

Personalised Planning

We help plan building project by tailoring sustainability advice that suits project's size, location and type.

Impact Index

We translate the benefits and measure the impacts of every sustainable decision.

Our Approach

Independent

All the products listed on Firstplanit are independently selected and evaluated. Typical sustainable product 
credentials are either too vague or too technical, broad or biased. This makes it impossible to gauge an item's actual environment, health or economic impact. Firstplanit provides a transparent rubric for quantifying the impact and benefits...

Independent

All the products listed on Firstplanit are independently selected and evaluated. Typical sustainable product 
credentials are either too vague or too technical, broad or biased. This makes it impossible to gauge an item's actual environment, health or economic impact. Firstplanit provides a transparent rubric for quantifying the impact and benefits...

Novel

We have dug deep to solve roadblocks to the uptake of sustainable and healthy strategies and building products. We have developed a novel patented methodology that generates an Impact index and a Benefit index for any single Product or material choice. This way we can measure, report and celebrate every positive choice.

Only Positive Impact Products

We have conducted one of the widest studies on the 
distribution of building materials and products. Our outputs include 1000 sustainable products covering over 50,000 data points that contribute towards Environmental, Social, Health and Monetary Impacts. And this is just the beginning of where we need to be as an industry.

Only Positive Impact Products

We have conducted one of the widest studies on the 
distribution of building materials and products. Our outputs include 1000 sustainable products covering over 50,000 data points that contribute towards Environmental, Social, Health and Monetary Impacts. And this is just the beginning of where we need to be as an industry.

Transparent Equitable Impact reporting

We are un-greenwashing because we have created transparency in the way we evaluate the impact of products. We want everyone to find and trust products that have positive impacts compared to less sustainable alternatives, and find ones that are most important in the areas that matter most, e.g. Environmental, Social, Health or Monetary Impact.

Continuously Improving

We want to continually grow and improve what we have started here. Using, sharing and asking for more information will create much needed, trust, confidence and accountability. Most importantly we will be able to measure progress in our industry, and support manufacturing trailblazers.

Continuously Improving

We want to continually grow and improve what we have started here. Using, sharing and asking for more information will create much needed, trust, confidence and accountability. Most importantly we will be able to measure progress in our industry, and support manufacturing trailblazers.

Unique, Robust & Useful

Firstplanit connects you to crucial explanations of the long-term environmental, social, health, and economic impact of particular choices - helping make your decisions with knowledge and care. The best decisions are those that fit the project, site and location. Positive impacts are context-driven and we help you understand and measure them.

Who is behind Firstplanit?

Firstplanit started at University College London (UCL). We are dedicated to reducing the harmful impacts of buildings

We bring together expertise from many fields; sustainable architecture, construction, material science, environmental modelling, data analytics, behavioural science, historic conservation, and energy engineering, digital technology and commercial strategy. We are adept at critical and design thinking.

We bring an intense creative approach to problem-solving. We have synthesised our knowledge to create an unparalleled algorithm to revolutionise the built space and to promote the health of the planet.

Firstplanit’s advisers are from University College London (UCL), World Resources Institute (WRI), Building Research Establishment (BRE).

Our Team!

Meet our diverse of world-class creators, designers and problem solvers.

Ankita Dwivedi

Ankita Dwivedi

Steve Bennett

Steve Bennett

Danny Sun

Danny Sun

Dimitrios Angeletos

Dimitrios Angeletos

Aditi Verma

Aditi Verma

Eugene Leach

Eugene Leach

Medha Barbaria

Medha Barbaria

Susan Thu

Susan Thu

Ridheesh Amarthya

Ridheesh Amarthya

Rahul Kumar

Rahul Kumar

Nausher Khan

Nausher Khan

Gangadhar Polisetti

Gangadhar Polisetti

Collaborators

Jhilmil Kishore Sally Cowell
Namrata Krishna Carol Flower
Neha Tayyal Dunia Tigris Gensler
Nivya PC    
Pratik Golkhar    

Advisors

Anna Mavrogianni Mark Salter
Brenda Puench Patrick Hermon
Brian Murphy Shahana Chattaraj
Jon Tollit Venkat Somsundaram
Marcella Ucci Yuliana Topazly

Contributors

Abhishek Tiwary

Alba Fernandez Arias

Alvaro Pesce

Ammar Nemat

Bethania Lanzaro

Carles Diaz Gil

Demian Gomez

Emilio Solis

Fatima Lage Perez

Federico Vaz

Gillian Phillips

Jonathan Stirling

Jorge Enrique Ramos Herrera

Kriti Goel

Lisa Cholmondeley

Magdalena Langosch

Maite De Maria

Manda Helal

Mohit Mehta

Nadine Servan

Neha Tomar

Pascual Gerstenfeld

Rachel Eyles

Sadaf Salehi

Sanjoli Tuteja

Shobhit Mahajan

Tom Ziegenbei

Warwick Hemingway

Vasilis Raptis

Vibhor Garg

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