# INC Architecture & Design

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2023 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Professional Services
**Website:** https://inc.nyc/
**Sustainability page:** https://inc.nyc/

## Sustainability story

INC Architecture & Design understands that innovative design is sustainable design, and our inherent responsibility. Led by five LEED-accredited partners, we’ve completed many LEED-certified projects and are developing some of the first WELL-certified projects in New York City. We maintain an open-source collective database of sustainable materials and furniture and are working toward operating our studio net zero. Inspired by the 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design, USGBC, and Well Building Institute, we aim to make sustainability and wellness a baseline for our industry. We see wellness as the “gateway drug” to an investment in sustainability: What’s good for the planet is good for the body, and what’s good for the body is good for the planet.

## Emissions (2024)

**Methodology:** INC Architecture & Design's emissions inventory uses a mix of spending and activity-based data. INC Architecture & Design attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 23 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 13 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 159 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 195 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per dollar of revenue — dollar of revenue

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2022 | 23 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 181 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 23 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 159 | 0.02 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 2** — Transition 50% natural gas to wind power through our electric utility in our headquarters. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2024, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from food scraps and paper towels  100% through composting in our headquarters . (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy to use electric and hybrid vehicles for local transportation whenever possible in place of standard ride hailing travel for all employees. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy to select flights with less than average carbon emissions for 50% of all business-related air travel for all employees. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $3,765.75

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $0
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [BVC] Carbon Upcycling Technologies Enhanced Building Materials (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $300 — type: Industrial, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2023, location: Canada, provider: Patch
- [BVC] Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $700 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2020, location: USA, provider: Patch
- [BVC] Fulton County Mud Road Landfill Gas Capture (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $750 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2020, location: USA, provider: Patch
- [BVC] Rochelle Municipal Landfill (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $440.75 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2020, location: USA, provider: Patch
- [BVC] GreenTrees ACRE (Advanced Carbon Restored Ecosystem) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $740 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2020, location: USA, provider: Patch
- [BVC] CarbonCure Concrete Mineralization (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $165 — type: Mineralization, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, provider: Patch
- [BVC] Ohio 18 Reserves IFM (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $670 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: Patch

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