How Bild Group in Construction Achieved AASB S2 Readiness and Strategic Climate Risk Management with NetNada

From Compliance Burden to Strategic Advantage

Bild Group is a national civil construction and infrastructure business, operating 19 fixed facilities (workshops, offices, yards) and a large portfolio of project-based works across Australia. As a Cohort 2 entity under Australia’s new climate-related financial disclosure regime, Bild must start mandatory reporting in FY26.

Prior to working with NetNada, Bild had an RSM-prepared roadmap and a high-level climate risk assessment, but saw critical gaps in:

• Specificity to operations: Generic risk frameworks didn’t account for Bild’s unique mix of fixed facilities and project-based delivery
• Financial linkage: Climate risks weren’t connected to revenue streams, project categories, or capital allocation decisions
• Transition planning: No clear pathway from risk identification to strategic action aligned with new legislation

Bild engaged NetNada to build a more robust, investor-grade climate risk assessment and translate it into practical strategy.

The Platform Challenge: Complex Data Across Diverse Operations

Multi-Dimensional Complexity

Bild Group’s carbon accounting challenge spanned three dimensions:

1. Fixed Operations: 19 workshops, offices, and yards across multiple states with different exposure profiles (facilities adjacent to rivers vs. higher-heat sites)
2. Project-Based Operations: Infrastructure projects, greenfield projects, bituminous/asphalt (Bitu-mill) works—each with unique emissions profiles
3. Geographic Overlay: Metro vs. regional/rural, state/territory-based exposure (Queensland cyclone risk, inland drought, temperature trends)

Data Collection Complexity

The Challenge: 30+ contractors with different data formats—Vista reports, utility bills, contractor invoices, waste tonnage vs. volume data.

NetNada’s Platform Solutions:

• Digital Twin Mapping: Created comprehensive digital twin of Bild’s regions and locations, enabling systematic tracking across diverse operations
• AI-Powered Smart Uploader: Automatically categorizes files by Scope 1/2/3, accepting both PDF invoices and CSV spreadsheets
• Batch Upload Capability: 15 files per batch with comments feature for additional context—eliminating email chasing
• Flexible Data Handling: Invoice vs. activity data options depending on available information, with example templates for different data types

Unique Industry Challenges Solved

Construction Waste Management: Bild’s 30+ contractors generate construction/demolition waste that doesn’t fit standard bin models.

NetNada’s Solution: Developed workarounds using standard density calculations to back-calculate volumes from tonnage data—enabling accurate Scope 3 waste accounting despite non-standard industry practices.

Comprehensive Data Collection Framework

NetNada structured Bild Group’s carbon accounting across all scopes with clear team responsibilities:

Scope 1 (Mobile Combustion)

• Focus: Fuel data management with transition from spend-based to activity data
• Challenge: Fleet across multiple project sites and fixed facilities

Scope 2 (Electricity & Utilities)

• Focus: Utility bills and consumption data across 19 facilities
• Challenge: Multiple billing formats and metering structures

Scope 3 (Supply Chain & Beyond)

• Finance & Waste: Coming from ERP and contractors invoices
• Capital Goods: Data sourced from asset register and ERP for financial analysis
• Travel, Employee Commute, Solar Initiatives: Claire Cuttler

This organizational structure aligned with Bild’s existing enterprise risk and project controls—enabling climate risks to be integrated rather than treated in isolation.

Risk Assessment Framework: Physical and Transition Risks

NetNada facilitated deep-dive workshops with Bild’s legal, systems, HSEQ, and operations stakeholders to build an investor-grade climate risk framework.

Physical Risk Prioritization

1. Extreme Rainfall & Flooding (Acute Risk)

Impacts: Operational downtime, contract penalties, asset damage, safety risks

Hotspots: Queensland projects and locations exposed to cyclones, floodplains, rivers

Current Maturity:

• Established project risk assessments and controls (dewatering plans, subcontractor readiness)
• Force majeure provisions in most contracts, but not climate-specific

Gap Identified by NetNada: More explicit climate lens in pricing, schedule assumptions, and contract negotiations—better mapping of project exposure to future flood and rainfall projections.

2. Extreme Heat & Chronic Temperature Increases

Government Projections Used:

• ~4% productivity loss by 2040
• ~700,000 days of lost productivity nationally

Disproportionate Effect: Regional projects and labour-intensive site work

Existing Mitigations: Shade, hydration, adjusted work hours, HSEQ processes

Gap Identified by NetNada: Consistent tracking of productivity losses and added costs; translating climate projections into labour planning, pricing, and tender strategies.

3. Additional Physical Risks Flagged

• Storms and high winds: Temporary works and site safety impacts
• Unseasonal cold snaps: Alpine projects affecting concrete curing and asphalt quality
• Bushfires and smoke: Air quality, worker safety, access restrictions
• Humidity and moisture: Concrete and surfacing quality impacts

Transition Risk Management

NetNada worked with Bild to explore non-physical, market, and regulatory changes:

Materials and Fuels

• Availability and cost of alternative fuels for fleet
• Anticipated requirements for low-carbon materials (green cement, green steel) in government and major private tenders
• Lessons from 2021–22 material price shocks as example of speed-to-change needed

Client Expectations and ESG in Tenders

• Increasing inclusion of climate and ESG criteria in major infrastructure tenders
• Emerging expectation that bidders demonstrate climate risk assessment, transition plans, and governance

Contract Reality

• Climate provisions largely absent in standard contracts
• Industry and government clients slow to explicitly price climate risk
• Bild’s strategic logic: “We won’t stay in the game if we can’t mitigate the risk, but the risk appetite and pricing approach must evolve as climate signals strengthen.”

Opportunities: Climate Risk as Revenue Growth

NetNada reframed climate impacts as growth opportunities for Bild Group:

Adaptation & Disaster Recovery Markets

National infrastructure and resilience investments will likely increase:

• Disaster recovery and flood repair
• Flood mitigation and protection infrastructure
• Dam upgrades and resilience projects (e.g., Warragamba Dam wall raising)

For a contractor prepared with the right capabilities, systems, and evidence, climate adaptation becomes a revenue growth area, not just a risk.

Competitive Differentiation

As climate reporting becomes mandatory and more sophisticated, early movers with:

• Robust climate risk frameworks
• Quantified financial impacts
• Documented transition plans

…can differentiate in tenders and client relationships.

Bild aims to position itself as a partner that understands climate risk not only for compliance, but as part of project design, delivery, and long-term asset performance.

Integration with Enterprise Risk and Financial Planning

NetNada’s process with Bild emphasized avoiding common pitfalls in early climate reporting:

What NetNada Prevented

❌ “Narrative only” risk lists with no:

• Link to financial planning and budgeting
• Clear adaptation actions or controls
• Ownership and governance pathways

What NetNada Delivered

✅ Risk Prioritization: Using impact and likelihood tied to revenue streams, project categories, and regions

✅ Controls and Actions: Policy updates, pricing guidelines, project screening criteria, pilot projects

✅ Decision Documentation: Rationales for choosing to exit, limit, or double-down in particular risk areas

✅ Financial Quantification Foundation: Progressive mapping of revenue and project exposure by region and project type with estimated financial impacts

Regulatory Readiness with Strategic Flexibility

Bild understands that the law does not mandate specific investments; it mandates transparent reporting of how the business is approaching climate risk.

The NetNada framework allows Bild’s leadership to consciously choose between:

• Actively investing in resilience and low-carbon opportunities, or
• Accepting, transferring, or exiting certain risks

…while still complying with disclosure requirements and maintaining investor confidence.

Why This Matters for Construction & Infrastructure

The Bild Group case study demonstrates three critical insights for the construction industry:

1. Climate Risk Requires Operational Specificity

Generic ESG frameworks fail to capture the reality of construction operations:

• Fixed facilities vs. project-based work
• Geographic exposure variations
• Contractor coordination complexity
• Material and waste data challenges

NetNada’s digital twin approach enables systematic accounting across this complexity.

2. Financial Linkage Transforms Climate from Cost to Strategy

Connecting climate risks to:

• Revenue streams
• Project pricing
• Tender competitiveness
• Market positioning

…transforms climate from compliance burden to strategic decision-making input.

3. Platform Infrastructure Scales Climate Management

Manual spreadsheets and email-based data collection cannot:

• Handle 30+ contractors with diverse data formats
• Provide audit-ready documentation for certification
• Enable real-time risk assessment for tender decisions
• Support systematic carbon accounting across complex operations

NetNada’s platform infrastructure makes systematic climate management operationally feasible.

Infrastructure Industry Leadership

As a construction/infrastructure company, Bild Group represents a sector with significant environmental impact potential. Their proactive engagement with comprehensive data collection and audit processes positions them as industry leaders in construction sustainability.

The partnership demonstrates how NetNada enables complex, asset-heavy businesses to achieve:

• Systematic carbon accounting across diverse operations
• Investor-grade climate risk assessment
• Strategic positioning for climate adaptation market growth
• Competitive differentiation through transparent, auditable climate disclosure

Ready to Transform Your Construction Business?

If your construction or infrastructure business faces similar challenges with:

• Mandatory climate reporting requirements
• Complex multi-site and project-based operations
• Diverse contractor and data source coordination
• Need for investor-grade climate risk assessment

NetNada can help you achieve Bild Group’s results:

• Platform-enabled systematic carbon accounting
• AASB S2 compliance readiness
• Climate risk transformed into strategic advantage
• Competitive positioning for adaptation market growth

Contact NetNada to discover how automated carbon accounting and climate risk frameworks can transform your construction business from compliance burden to strategic leader.