Biodiversity Net Gain Dashboard
Digital solutions
Improve project management of BNG planning and delivery, to effectively secure consent
Biodiversity net gain is a mandatory requirement for most projects requiring planning permission or a Development Consent Order, with performance measured through the statutory biodiversity metric. However, the metric is complex, time-intensive and particularly difficult for non-specialists to interpret with. This makes it challenging for the wider project team and decision-makers to understand whether their BNG design is on track, where risks or opportunities exist, and what action is needed.
The dashboard helps ecologists save significant time when reporting on iterative BNG designs and communicating performance to wider stakeholders. The increased accessibility enables project teams to collaborate, engage earlier in design and delivery, and plan for wider project or portfolio outcomes. It supports BNG design and planning throughout the project lifecycle, from early-stage optioneering, through design iterations and up to planning or DCO submission.
Manage biodiversity performance at scale for your portfolio or organisation
The BNG dashboard provides a means for understanding biodiversity at an aggregate level, beyond just individual projects. This can support portfolios and organisations with their sustainability strategy, identify risks and leverage opportunities of scale across their portfolio. Ultimately, this will help move beyond simple compliance, using biodiversity planning to support nature recovery, improve project outcomes and feasibility, and create lasting value for communities and the environment.
Clearer understanding for decision-makers
Makes BNG results easier to understand for project teams, clients and non-specialists, supporting better conversations and faster decisions.
Inform optioneering and design iterations
Handles multiple metrics without limit, enabling easy comparison of options or design iterations throughout the project.
Strategic value beyond compliance
Gives organisations the ability to manage BNG at an aggregated level, supporting a more proactive, value-adding approach rather than a reactive compliance-only process.
A dashboard that enables BNG commitments to be viewed and managed over the lifetime of the monitoring requirements and across a portfolio of projects would be of huge benefit to client organisations.Julia Barrett
Global practice lead, environment
Clear BNG data visualisation
Translates complex biodiversity metric data into accessible dashboard visuals for easier interpretation.
Project and portfolio performance views
Enables BNG to be managed at project, portfolio and organisational level.
Metric comparison for optioneering
Allows users to compare multiple biodiversity metric calculations to support design iteration and refinement.
Granular habitat performance breakdowns
Provides project-level breakdowns of BNG performance, compliance and actions required across habitat unit types.
Automated dashboard upload workflow
Supports a digitally enabled workflow where completed BNG metric files can be uploaded for automatic dashboard reporting.
Portfolio risk and opportunity identification
Helps identify risks and opportunities across a portfolio, with the ability to drill down into specific projects or components of interest.
