September 2025: Top Trumps, Tech Summits & Top Deck Views
September 16, 2025
Kia ora, friends & spies (yes, we know who you are),
Spring has officially sprung down here in Aotearoa, and Father’s Day reminded us just how many dads are lurking in the ηezo team. Office chat was filled with tales of treasure hunts, forest fairy sightings, pancake feasts, and of course, the occasional dad beer. As it turns out, we’re just big kids who now get excited about biogenic carbon and Lego-style material assemblies.
Somewhere between flipping pancakes and dodging glittery fairy wings, we reinvented an old game: ηezo Trumps. Think Top Trumps, but for design nerds. Cost, carbon, weight, biogenic content. Wildly addictive. Possibly the nerdiest card game ever created.
We also had a big month on the thought-leadership front, presenting to members of the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) about how tight timelines create bad data, and how bad data leads to bloated cost plans and ugly emissions profiles. Bad data doesn’t build buildings. It builds regret.
And yes, we’ve officially opened a Sydney office. Opera House views included. Proper grown-up climate-tech energy. Barry still refuses to visit. He says it’s not a fear of heights, it’s a fear of falling. Potato, potato.
🧪 What’s New? Big Feature Drops and Bigger Moves
First up, our long-awaited Green Star Carbon Reporting export is now live inside ηezo. One click (no shade thrown, promise 😊) and your Green Star carbon report is ready. No Excel gymnastics. No formatting pain. Just clean data and instant results.
Next up: NABERS Embodied Carbon Reporting, now available directly in the platform. This one’s especially important for Australian users dealing with the Sustainable Buildings SEPP. If you’re still manually calculating embodied carbon from materials and transport, this will save you a lot of hours — and a lot of patience.
We’ve also rolled out the UK ICE Database, fully integrated into ηezo. No more PDF hunting or category guesswork. Select a material and the carbon data loads instantly into SketchUp, Archicad, or Revit. UK designers — this is a workflow upgrade you haven’t seen before. Our pommie friends, you’re welcome.
Behind the scenes, we’re deep in development on the User / Marketplace Platform (name still under debate). Soon, suppliers will upload their own product data and assemblies directly, and designers will build custom EPDs like Lego kits. Beta testing is opening soon — email support@nezo-app.com if you want early access.
And yes, ηezo Trumps isn’t just for laughs. It will eventually tie into the supplier marketplace, letting users compare and “battle” material performance online. Think LinkedIn… but for material performance. New cards are dropping every few days.
🏗️ Real Projects and Real Progress
This month brought a wave of momentum with new users and trial partners.
WSP Christchurch jumped straight into their trial and checked in twice in the first week — always a good sign. We also presented to Turner Studio in Sydney and the Auckland University design school. Both are now in trial mode, with Turner Studio noting how far ηezo has progressed beyond the tools they’re used to. Music to our ears.
AUT University let us know they want ηezo embedded before the start of next year. They’re already planning how to roll it into student workflows. If we end up on a university syllabus, someone please organise a cap and gown.
We also had a strong session with Colliers. They’d seen the demo before, but once they experienced the Green Star export live, the conversation quickly shifted to rollout. The pain was obvious. So was the solution.
🌏 Where We’ve Been This Month
September was a blur of conferences, panels, and moments where we realised we’re punching above our weight.
We officially opened our Sydney base inside The Greenhouse at Salesforce Tower, Australia’s home for climate innovation. From the Christchurch Arts Centre to Circular Quay, we’re working from some of the most iconic buildings around. Credit to our CTO William for securing Opera House views and a floor full of VCs.
Pop in if you’re nearby. We’ll be talking carbon, cost, weight (loss), and arguing about who has the strongest ηezo Trumps card.
We joined the ASX Canterbury Tech Summit, spoke at NZGBC events challenging outdated workflow assumptions, and attended the MOVAC Growth Jam where Barry sat alongside founders from Seequent, Partly, Dawn Aerospace, and VTX. Different industries, same problem: changing systems that resist change.
Will also made it to Startmate Demo Day with over 2,000 attendees. Big ideas, brave founders, and serious ambition. ηezo fits right in.
We’re also launching a new online demo & Q&A series, running twice-weekly lunch sessions. Users and the curious are all welcome. Come for the demo, stay for the questions.
🌍 World News
Policy is having a moment — and for once, it’s a good one.
Auckland City Council announced new procurement weighting with 15% allocated to sustainability and social outcomes. That’s no rounding error. That’s real leverage.
Across the Tasman, Australia’s decarbonisation roadmap is finally gaining structure. AGBC has drawn a clear line: cut upfront embodied carbon by 10% now, scale to 40% by 2030, or kiss your 6 Green Stars goodbye.
Elsewhere:
• Lombard Odier opens “1Roof” HQ in Geneva using lake-sourced geothermal cooling (FT)
• Global green building materials market set to nearly double by 2030 (MarketWatch)
• IIT Indore pilots geopolymer concrete with up to 80% CO₂ reduction (Times of India)
• Digital marketplace proposed for reused construction materials using blockchain (arXiv)
• IMO considers enforceable net-zero treaty for global shipping (Mongabay)
💤 Buenas Noches
Why are you still manually exporting carbon data to Excel?
Come see what real-time design analytics can do. Join a demo, start a trial, or just play a game of ηezo Trumps with us. The only thing we love more than good design is a good laugh.
Always forward, praise and engineer, high-five a Green Star building, and whisper “you are enough” into the breeze.
The ηezo Team.