Episode 75 - From Spreadsheets to Smart Sites: LCA Data Collection feat. Oline Stærke

Walk onto almost any construction site today and you’ll find the same paradox.Projects worth tens or hundreds of millions are being delivered with cutting-edge design tools, advanced materials, and increasingly strict sustainability targets. Yet when it comes to documenting what actually happens on site, many teams still fall back on the same tools they’ve used for decades.Spreadsheets. Emails. Folders full of PDFs. And hours upon hours of manual data entry.This isn’t just inefficient. It’s becoming a serious problem.Because across Europe, construction companies are now being asked to document something they’ve rarely tracked before in detail: the carbon impact of the construction phase itself.And that changes everything.In today's episode, we spoke with Oline Stærke, founder and CEO of the SaaS platform acembee, about one of the most underestimated challenges emerging on construction sites: collecting and managing LCA data during execution – LCA A4 and A5.What you'll learn from today's episode of Inventing Construction:- How we collect on-site LCA data today- Why you should involve all stakeholders in digital solutions- acembee: Visual tracking of project carbon targets- What data is realistically possible to track today?- Advice for contractors facing carbon documentation requirementsYou can also listen to Inventing Construction on these platforms:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aAxc0iqOe2JJly3jCh9jV?si=8db208888a9a4e4cApple podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inventing-construction/id1629403210YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmFqJlVzEa6Lc_7LOTjvac2oTbRRk9HdKWe would love for you to continue the conversation with us on LinkedIn:Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-griffin-kosmos/Elia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliaarquitectatecnica/Oline: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oline-staerke/KOSMOS: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kosmos-dkThanks for listening!