Keeping up with all the latest protocols, technology, and strategies pertaining to carbon management isn’t easy. Today, resources, guidance, and policies are scattered across multiple websites, agencies, and countries.
To help make this information more legible, Grimshaw Architects has developed Minoro, a user-friendly platform designed to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings. Minoro provides a carbon management toolkit that helps users track actions, identify decarbonization opportunities, and create a plan for curbing building emissions.
Minoro was developed by Grimshaw Architects and over 20 other organizations including RIBA, the World Green Building Council, Architecture 2030, and others. It’s a website that centralizes the latest guidance, methodologies, and policies on carbon management; a one-stop shop for resources to a series of actions that will decarbonize new and existing buildings.
The platform is free to use, and is specifically catered to asset owners, investors, design teams, consultants, contractors, and building operations. Users can go to Minoro and access links to over 1,000 policies, guidance, and methodologies, designers from Grimshaw said.
All in all, Minoro is meant to help people filter information—from concept to operations—through specific actions across every stage of a building’s life cycle and targets like embodied carbon, procurement, and responsibility from a client to a supplier.
“We know that buildings contribute almost 40% of the global energy related carbon emissions, but equally the route to decarbonising buildings is complex,” said Roland Hunziker of the World Building Council for Sustainable Development. “The opportunity brought by Minoro is to help navigate this complexity and bring building owners and their project teams closer together in the setting of high ambitions and realising the incredible responsibility all stakeholders have to take effective action.”
Andrew Whalley, a firmleader at Grimshaw, added: “Minoro comes [at] a critical time for our industry. The access to guidelines and positive action, and the responsibility it identifies for all stakeholders in the project life cycle will serve to accelerate the change we need. Equally, the input and support of all the organisations behind its development is evidence of how vital collaborative action is.”
The platform’s current key areas are the U.S., U.K., Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Moving forward, it will soon be expanded to include new regions and countries “particularly from the Global South” according to Minoro’s website.