Advisory practices
Sustainability
ESG, EHS, carbon and operational sustainability for industrial companies: reporting readiness, carbon visibility where the emissions are actually created, and the operational data underneath it. Advisory-led, partner-enabled.
Overview
One of four advisory practices,
with an operational layer underneath
Sustainability is one of CoralDune's four advisory practices, alongside PRIME, CODEX and FLEX. It covers ESG, EHS, carbon and operational sustainability: getting an organisation ready to report, making carbon visible at the level where it is created, and digitising the workflows that keep the underlying data honest. The practice is advisory-led. Where a platform is needed, CoralDune works through partner platforms and through DuneSpan's own operational sustainability modules.
What we support
What the practice supports
- Sustainability reporting readiness: the data, the evidence trail and the approvals an external assurer will ask to see.
- Carbon visibility: Scope 1, 2 and 3 seen at site, line and job level, not only at company level.
- EHS digitisation: incidents, near-misses, hazards, permits and monthly HSE statistics held as records rather than spreadsheets.
- Operational sustainability workflows: period opening, data collection, review and approval, with a named owner at every step.
- Product sustainability: per-product and per-batch figures, and the material data behind them.
- LCA and EPD facilitation: lifecycle studies and environmental product declarations run with specialist partners.
- Partner platform enablement: selection, implementation and enablement of partner ESG, carbon and EHS platforms.
In DuneSpan
Where sustainability sits in the platform
Sustainability is part of HexaGrid OI, the operations layer. On the DuneSpan architecture diagram HexaGrid OI carries “Sustainability: Scope 1, 2 and 3 and operational carbon” alongside “Energy per unit, carbon intensity”. In the app it appears in the sidebar as Carbon.
Sources, factor sets and reporting periods are configured and confirmed per deployment.
The design
Activity × emission factor is arithmetic.
It is done by rules, with full provenance.
Carbon is calculated by rules, never by retrieval and never by a language model. LEXORA can explain a figure, a factor or a standard; it does not calculate and it does not select emission factors. Every number can be reproduced from the inputs, the factor library version and the engine version that produced it.
+Reporting periods
Month, quarter or financial year, on each legal entity's own calendar, moving through Open, Collecting, Under Review, Approved and Locked. The lock is what an external assurer audits against.
+Activity records
Period × site or asset × activity type × quantity × unit, each one carrying an evidence document, a data owner and a status. The same pattern covers carbon, water, waste and monthly HSE statistics.
+Emission factor library
Factors held by source, region, year and GWP set. Versioned and never overwritten, so a calculation made two years ago can still be reproduced today. Factor datasets such as DEFRA and ecoinvent carry different licence terms, which are checked before use.
+Calculation runs
Every run records the input snapshot, the factor library version, the engine or partner-API version, and the outputs it produced.
+Approval roles
Contributor, reviewer, approver, external assurer. The approval chain runs on FLOW, so every step leaves an audit trail.
+Roll-up path
Asset to site, site to legal entity, legal entity to group.
+Grain
Sustainability data is monthly; HexaGrid OI data is by the second. Combined KPIs such as carbon per tonne or energy per unit have their grain defined once, and monthly carbon is never spread down to shifts.
+Future hooks
HSE events (incident, near-miss, hazard, permit), and LCA as bill of materials × factors × lifecycle stages, with EN 15804 as the reference frame for lifecycle stages, checked for each market.
In practice
Four to eight sub-meters,
not a meter on every machine
Sub-metering by machine group is the approach in CoralDune's client designs: typically four to eight sub-meters covering, for example, the coating line and oven, welders, laser, press brakes, compressed air, test rigs and general load. Not the whole facility, which tells you almost nothing, and not every machine, which costs more than it returns. Per-machine metering can follow later if the coarse data justifies it.
Per-unit figures come out of the same data: kWh and kgCO2e per product, per batch and per project, and where a buyer asks for it, per m², per certified batch or per unit of contract value.
Why it earns its place
A measured figure beats an estimate in a tender
Gulf public and quasi-public buyers are progressively adding environmental criteria to procurement. When a buyer asks for the carbon behind a product, a measured per-unit figure carries weight that an estimate does not.
One instrument, two returns
The same meters show where energy is being wasted — ovens held hot while idle is the common one. The saving is real, but it is a by-product of the measurement rather than the reason to do the work.
In the field
The same pattern, different plants
Client examples are described by sector. Scope and configuration differ per deployment.
Standards and references
What the work is built on
- GHG Protocol Corporate Standard: the source of the Scope 1, 2 and 3 terms used throughout. ISO 14064-1:2018 uses direct and indirect categories instead.
- ISO 22400-2: defines the energy KPI Comprehensive Energy Consumption.
- ISO 50006:2023: energy performance indicators and baselines.
- EN 15804: the reference frame for EPD lifecycle stages.
- UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 11: Scope 1 and 2 carbon.
- India CCTS: the national carbon credit trading scheme.
- EU CBAM: the carbon border adjustment mechanism.
- Applicability is confirmed per client, market and reporting year before anything is relied on.
Roadmap
What this is, stated plainly
DuneSpan is not a full ESG reporting platform, and it does not automatically calculate all carbon emissions. What it gives an operation today is operational sustainability visibility: activity data captured per period, rule-based calculation of Scope 1 and 2 with versioned factors, and an audit trail underneath both. Where a full reporting platform is required, the work is partner-enabled and advisory-led.
“DuneSpan's operational intelligence roadmap includes the ability to connect selected sustainability, operational carbon, EHS and resource-efficiency indicators with production, quality and operational KPIs.”
Want a carbon figure you can defend?Tell us what you have to report, and what you can measure today.
Get in touchAdvisory practices
Sustainability
ESG, EHS, carbon and operational sustainability for industrial companies: reporting readiness, carbon visibility where the emissions are actually created, and the operational data underneath it. Advisory-led, partner-enabled.
Overview
One of four advisory practices,
with an operational layer underneath
Sustainability is one of CoralDune's four advisory practices, alongside PRIME, CODEX and FLEX. It covers ESG, EHS, carbon and operational sustainability: getting an organisation ready to report, making carbon visible at the level where it is created, and digitising the workflows that keep the underlying data honest. The practice is advisory-led. Where a platform is needed, CoralDune works through partner platforms and through DuneSpan's own operational sustainability modules.
What we support
What the practice supports
- Sustainability reporting readiness: the data, the evidence trail and the approvals an external assurer will ask to see.
- Carbon visibility: Scope 1, 2 and 3 seen at site, line and job level, not only at company level.
- EHS digitisation: incidents, near-misses, hazards, permits and monthly HSE statistics held as records rather than spreadsheets.
- Operational sustainability workflows: period opening, data collection, review and approval, with a named owner at every step.
- Product sustainability: per-product and per-batch figures, and the material data behind them.
- LCA and EPD facilitation: lifecycle studies and environmental product declarations run with specialist partners.
- Partner platform enablement: selection, implementation and enablement of partner ESG, carbon and EHS platforms.
In DuneSpan
Where sustainability sits in the platform
Sustainability is part of HexaGrid OI, the operations layer. On the DuneSpan architecture diagram HexaGrid OI carries “Sustainability: Scope 1, 2 and 3 and operational carbon” alongside “Energy per unit, carbon intensity”. In the app it appears in the sidebar as Carbon.
Sources, factor sets and reporting periods are configured and confirmed per deployment.
The design
Activity × emission factor is arithmetic.
It is done by rules, with full provenance.
Carbon is calculated by rules, never by retrieval and never by a language model. LEXORA can explain a figure, a factor or a standard; it does not calculate and it does not select emission factors. Every number can be reproduced from the inputs, the factor library version and the engine version that produced it.
+Reporting periods
Month, quarter or financial year, on each legal entity's own calendar, moving through Open, Collecting, Under Review, Approved and Locked. The lock is what an external assurer audits against.
+Activity records
Period × site or asset × activity type × quantity × unit, each one carrying an evidence document, a data owner and a status. The same pattern covers carbon, water, waste and monthly HSE statistics.
+Emission factor library
Factors held by source, region, year and GWP set. Versioned and never overwritten, so a calculation made two years ago can still be reproduced today. Factor datasets such as DEFRA and ecoinvent carry different licence terms, which are checked before use.
+Calculation runs
Every run records the input snapshot, the factor library version, the engine or partner-API version, and the outputs it produced.
+Approval roles
Contributor, reviewer, approver, external assurer. The approval chain runs on FLOW, so every step leaves an audit trail.
+Roll-up path
Asset to site, site to legal entity, legal entity to group.
+Grain
Sustainability data is monthly; HexaGrid OI data is by the second. Combined KPIs such as carbon per tonne or energy per unit have their grain defined once, and monthly carbon is never spread down to shifts.
+Future hooks
HSE events (incident, near-miss, hazard, permit), and LCA as bill of materials × factors × lifecycle stages, with EN 15804 as the reference frame for lifecycle stages, checked for each market.
In practice
Four to eight sub-meters,
not a meter on every machine
Sub-metering by machine group is the approach in CoralDune's client designs: typically four to eight sub-meters covering, for example, the coating line and oven, welders, laser, press brakes, compressed air, test rigs and general load. Not the whole facility, which tells you almost nothing, and not every machine, which costs more than it returns. Per-machine metering can follow later if the coarse data justifies it.
Per-unit figures come out of the same data: kWh and kgCO2e per product, per batch and per project, and where a buyer asks for it, per m², per certified batch or per unit of contract value.
Why it earns its place
A measured figure beats an estimate in a tender
Gulf public and quasi-public buyers are progressively adding environmental criteria to procurement. When a buyer asks for the carbon behind a product, a measured per-unit figure carries weight that an estimate does not.
One instrument, two returns
The same meters show where energy is being wasted — ovens held hot while idle is the common one. The saving is real, but it is a by-product of the measurement rather than the reason to do the work.
In the field
The same pattern, different plants
Client examples are described by sector. Scope and configuration differ per deployment.
Standards and references
What the work is built on
- GHG Protocol Corporate Standard: the source of the Scope 1, 2 and 3 terms used throughout. ISO 14064-1:2018 uses direct and indirect categories instead.
- ISO 22400-2: defines the energy KPI Comprehensive Energy Consumption.
- ISO 50006:2023: energy performance indicators and baselines.
- EN 15804: the reference frame for EPD lifecycle stages.
- UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 11: Scope 1 and 2 carbon.
- India CCTS: the national carbon credit trading scheme.
- EU CBAM: the carbon border adjustment mechanism.
- Applicability is confirmed per client, market and reporting year before anything is relied on.
Roadmap
What this is, stated plainly
DuneSpan is not a full ESG reporting platform, and it does not automatically calculate all carbon emissions. What it gives an operation today is operational sustainability visibility: activity data captured per period, rule-based calculation of Scope 1 and 2 with versioned factors, and an audit trail underneath both. Where a full reporting platform is required, the work is partner-enabled and advisory-led.
“DuneSpan's operational intelligence roadmap includes the ability to connect selected sustainability, operational carbon, EHS and resource-efficiency indicators with production, quality and operational KPIs.”
Want a carbon figure you can defend?Tell us what you have to report, and what you can measure today.
Get in touch