Carbon footprints for civil works. Traceable to the source.

InfraCarbon calculates the carbon footprint of utility and road projects from a structured project model. Quantities, factors and sources stay traceable.

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Why InfraCarbon

Emissions are decided during design.

In civil works, much of the embodied carbon is decided during design: pipe material, trench build-up, road structure. InfraCarbon makes these decisions visible.

Quantities, factors, sources, assumptions and missing information stay traceable. A missing input is shown as a gap in the result, not as zero.

Road build-up · Trench build-up · Pipe materialSchematic illustration, not to scale

How InfraCarbon works

From project model to a traceable report.

01Model the projectPipes, trenches, manholes and road build-up in one model.
02CalculateProduction, transport and end of life with factors from KBOB V9.0, complemented by further Swiss LCA data where KBOB has no dataset (e.g. road surfacing); every factor with its source, missing inputs shown as gaps.
03Compare optionsUp to three variants side by side, e.g. a different pipe material or trench build-up.
04ReportShort or full PDF report with quantities, factors, sources, assumptions and limits; data as CSV.

Covered: production (A1-A3), transport to site (A4) and disposal (C3-C4), plus transport to disposal (C2) where the data source lists it separately.

InfraCarbon - project model with road build-up, utility trench and manholes in cross-section — **Project model** · Road build-up, trench and manholes with a schematic cross-section.

InfraCarbon - carbon footprint by life-cycle module, broken down by position — **Carbon footprint** · By life-cycle module, traceable down to the individual position.

InfraCarbon - option comparison by component and life-cycle module — **Option comparison** · Differences per component and module.

InfraCarbon - AI-assisted plan reading of uploaded site plans and cross-sections — **AI-assisted plan reading** · Suggestions from drawings, checked and confirmed by an engineer.

InfraCarbon - resource passport with materials and end-of-life route — **Resource passport** · Materials built in, new or reused, and where they go at demolition.

InfraCarbon dashboard: projects, carbon footprint and quick actions — **Dashboard** · Projects and carbon footprint at a glance.

Screens from the app (October 2026) with an anonymous test project.

Who it is for

For everyone who plans and owns civil infrastructure.

Public works departmentsof cities and municipalities
Engineering firmsin utility and road design
Utility network operators
Municipal drainage utilities

More than a footprint

AI and circular economy.

InfraCarbon combines the carbon footprint with AI-assisted plan reading and the resource passport.

AI-assisted plan reading

AI-assisted plan reading suggests inputs from drawings, such as pavement layers and their thickness from the typical cross-section. Every suggestion is checked and confirmed by an engineer before it enters the model.

Goal: InfraCarbon will suggest inputs from typical cross-sections, site plans and longitudinal profiles.

Resource passport and circular economy

The resource passport records which materials are built in, whether they are new or reused, and where they go at demolition, as a basis for reuse and recycling. Quantities per component group come straight from the model.

In the footprint

On-site reuse of excavated soil can be modelled as a variant and compared with removal and new supply.
Recycled building materials can be selected with their own factors.
For demolished existing components, the end-of-life route is recorded, e.g. recycling or disposal.

GIS: Our goal is to prepare the resource passport data so that utilities and public works departments can take it into their GIS.

Import of bills of quantitiesTake quantities from the bill of quantities instead of entering them twice.

Construction and demolition phase

Data basis

The factor basis is currently Swiss (KBOB V9.0 and further Swiss LCA data). A German database (ÖKOBAUDAT) is not connected; for projects in Germany this would be a development step.

KBOB V9.0Swiss LCA dataEvery factor with its source

We prepare the carbon footprint of your civil works project with InfraCarbon.

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