🏡 RegenBuild is creating the value layer for regenerative action in the built environment.

🟢 It is building a protocol to measure, report and validate building performance through all phases of a building’s lifecycle and provide funding access to qualified projects.

RegenBuild consists of the following👇🏼

• 1️⃣ Framework - Standard that pushes beyond the status quo and clearly communicates the project's goals and achievements with all stakeholders.
• 2️⃣ Platform - Connects tools and products with validators to holistically analyse and validate building performance through all phases of a project's lifecycle.
• 3️⃣ Protocol - Powered by blockchain, it coordinates stakeholders, incentivises positive outcomes, and equitably rewards them based on verified impact and contributions to the project.

✅ Being the value layer, RegenBuild could potentially serve as the foundation for the AECO (architecture, engineering, construction, operations) industry’s transition to a regenerative paradigm over the 21st century.

🎯 Mission

To align the AECO industry and build public goods to solve coordination problems and accelerate regeneration in the built environment.

‼️ Impact

🏭 The built environment industry is responsible for around 40% of global carbon emissions, 30% of waste generation, and 20% of water consumption.

🥇 It has the highest potential to address climate change with the least amount of capital expenditure. Hence it is imperative that we address the systemic issues of the industry to affect changes at a planetary scale.

🧩 Leveraging crypto-economic systems could prove critical in coordinating the stakeholders towards shared goals and collective action.

⏩ Building an open workflow that complements existing tools & products solves data interoperability problems and brings value to the whole industry while easing adoption.

🤝 Connecting to DeFi funding protocols opens up new financial models and enables more projects to become regenerative.

✅ Work Done

• 📄 Thesis - Introduction to RegenBuild

• 🤿 Deep Dive - A Systems Perspective to Foster Regeneration in the Built Environment

• 🕸️ RegenBuild Framework - CalcTree Repository

• 📻 Built Environment Hour - Hosted industry experts to raise awareness and gain insights.

💰 Funds Allocation

• Building the open workflow
• Whitepaper
• RegenBuild Framework
• Operations

📍 Targets - March 2024

• Form core team
• Build open workflow for Proof of Regen Design
• Finalise the regenerative framework
• Whitepaper v0.1
• Strategic partnerships

🧗🏼Challenges

• Finding a technical lead to build the workflow
• More funding needed to execute the roadmap
• Took time off for medical reasons

👥 Our Team

Guru Vishwas - Founder

Guru has over 6 years of experience in the construction industry across various roles with a background in civil engineering and a master’s in construction management and sustainability. He was previously a product and strategy lead at SD+, India’s first platform to help real estate projects become more sustainable.

Una Wang - Research Lead, PhD ETH Zurich

Una is a multifaceted young professional, embodying various roles in her career. She is leading the project no1s1 at ETH Zurich as a PhD candidate. Her research explores topics such as decentralised autonomous buildings, decentralised physical infrastructure, digital twin, IoT and regenerative built environments. Leveraging her background in architecture, she thrives as a builder and maker. She brings ideas to life through cyber-physical integrated prototypes and products.

✊🏼 Our Values

• Collaboration - We believe in the power of composability, building on each other's strengths, and emphasising collaboration over competition.
• Collective Intelligence - We value the power of the many over the strength of the few. We believe that when minds come together, the potential for innovation, problem-solving, and growth is boundless.
• Diversity & Inclusion - We recognise the potential of diverse perspectives to contribute and seek to advance a paradigm where individual capabilities can be expressed fully in service of collective goals.
• First Principles - We understand that we are navigating uncharted territories where traditional guidelines may not always apply. Undeterred, we are ready and willing to form our own judgements and carve our own paths.