About Us
VerdCore is environmental compliance software built for UK construction — helping contractors and SMEs track, report, and reduce emissions in line with the frameworks their clients and planning authorities require.
What we do
Carbon reporting has become a condition of winning work in UK construction. Public-sector tenders require Carbon Reduction Plans under PPN 006, main contractors ask their supply chain for emissions data, and planning authorities increasingly expect whole-life carbon assessments.
VerdCore turns that burden into a workflow: log fuel, materials, transport, and waste as work happens, and generate the reports, certificates, and tender documents you need — calculated against official DEFRA emission factors.
Built on UK frameworks
- DEFRA GHG Conversion Factors — official UK Government emission factors
- PAS 2080:2023 — carbon management in buildings and infrastructure
- PPN 006 (formerly PPN 06/21) — Carbon Reduction Plans for public procurement
- GHG Protocol — Scope 1, 2, and 3 reporting
- Biodiversity Net Gain — Defra Statutory Biodiversity Metric
Who it's for
From sole-trader subcontractors logging their first site to main contractors managing a portfolio of projects and their supply chain, VerdCore is designed to make compliance achievable without a sustainability consultant on retainer.
Who reviews these guides
VerdCore was founded by Franklyn Mbama-chris, MBA, fCMgr. He holds an MBA in Environmental Management from Bangor University (Distinction, 2026), where his dissertation examined solar PV lifecycle impacts against net-zero targets — Scope 1, 2 and 3 accounting applied end to end.
Before the MBA he spent over eight years in the built environment, most of it as an Environmental Planner at a multidisciplinary consultancy: environmental assessments and site appraisals, embedding low-carbon and material-lifecycle thinking into planning and design briefs, GIS analysis of land use and ecological sensitivity, and taking schemes through consent with local authorities and community groups. Earlier roles covered urban planning and QA/QC on an oil and gas infrastructure project. That experience was gained in Nigeria rather than the UK, which is precisely why every guide here cites GOV.UK, Defra or BSI directly, and says which version of a framework it is describing, instead of asking you to take our word for it.
He is a member of ISEP and the CMI, and holds the CMI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.
Every guide in the Resources library is written by the VerdCore team and reviewed by him before publication, and each carries the date it was last checked. Compliance guidance is only worth as much as the person standing behind it, so the reviewer is named rather than left to “our experts” — and you can check the claim: LinkedIn · GitHub.
Where our guidance rests on a judgement rather than a published figure, we say so in the guide itself — as in our investigation into the gaps in DEFRA’s factor set, which documents which material factors are interim and why.
Get in touch
- General enquiries: hello@verdcore.com
- Support: support@verdcore.com
- Press & info: info@verdcore.com