Our Vision

Enabling a built environment within planetary boundaries

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What is the built environment? It’s all around us.

Buildings are fundamental to our modern life.

We work in them, we learn in them, and come together with community and family in them. Our homes are some of the most important buildings in our lives.

We can see the glass, the concrete, and the light through a window...

But we don’tsee the Impact

global footprint

11%

Building materials are responsible for approximately 11% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. For context, airline flights are 2.5% of global emissions.

Building mass

1xNYC/month

Every month the building mass equivalent to New York City is built around the world.

Global energy use

The cement sector constitutes 7% of industrial global energy use, making it the third-largest industrial energy consumer.

Future footprint

75%

of the building infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built. We can change the trajectory today.

CO₂ reduction

100M

100 million tons CO₂ we're aiming to reduce yearly by 2030

This is our call to action.These times require us to re-thinkhow we build.

Our Mission

We enable manufacturers to turn their sustainable materials into a competitive advantage

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Our guiding principles

How we work

Let’s f*cking go

We believe true change comes from action. Instead of hesitating or complaining, we embrace a hands-on mentality and tackle challenges head-on. Roadblocks are inevitable when transforming an industry, but persistence, creativity, and the drive to try again define our approach. LFG is the energy we bring every day to push boundaries and build a better future.

Environment > Customer >
Team > Individual

Environment > Customer
As humanity, we are part of the environment per definition. If customer wishes are in tradeoff with positive environmental impact, we help the customer to understand that long-term benefitting the environment also benefits them. Our company constitution states “ The company pursues the further purpose of achieving a significant positive impact on the common good and the environment”. There is no way around prioritizing the environment if you work at Emidat.
Customer > Team
This means doing the right thing for our customer (especially when it’s hard!). We don’t only want to satisfy our customers, we want to help them succeed, to be superheroes. For every important decision, we ask ourselves: “What’s in it for our customers?” When in doubt, favor solving for the customer’s interest over our own.
Team > Individual
We embrace the fact that fixing the pressing issues of our times requires unity and collaboration. We prioritize joint success with our co-workers and industry partners over thriving individually. Be proud to work in a team you learn from everyday and give more than you take. Make sure to step back when there is somebody else on the team who knows better - we operate with low ego and make time to help our colleagues succeed.

Beat yesterday

Everyday, we aim to be better than yesterday. There’s no shame in making mistakes, it’s not a problem that when doing something for the first time, it’s not great. What’s important is that the next time it’s better, ideally much better. And don’t do the same mistake twice.

We recruit fast learners, people who don’t stop improving every single day and want to become the very best in their field or discipline. This also means setting clear goals and tracking your performance. We strive for constant measurable improvement and learning.

Transparency

In order to truly own and make good decisions, you need to have as much context as possible. Hence, we strive for full transparency in the decisions we make (shared in Decision Log), in the expectations we set (everyone’s role description), and the strategic direction we set for the company (shared in Roadmap) among others.

Everybody can look at our financials, everybody can see what we report to investors. Transparency requires good documentation and communication.

Ownership

We define clear ownership for tasks and processes. Ownership doesn’t mean you do it all. It means you are ultimately accountable for the outcome. You should pull the input you need and keep an overview on what is needed to achieve the desired outcome. This will enable us to make good decisions and act fast in our exceptionally dynamic environment.

Our team