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NEC helps developers, consultants, contractors, and asset owners structure sustainability indicators and benchmarks for buildings and civil engineering works using ISO 21678 principles and requirements.
Assessment route: ISO 21678 provides principles, requirements, and guidance for sustainability indicators and benchmarks. It is not a general management-system certification standard; verification depends on the project, reporting framework, or assessment scheme.
ISO 21678 defines principles, requirements, and guidelines for developing and using benchmarks when assessing economic, social, and environmental performance through sustainability indicators.
NEC translates the framework into clear responsibilities, documents, controls, records, and improvement activities that fit the organisation’s actual operations.
Current reference: ISO 21678:2020 is the current published edition.
NEC shapes the route around the commercial objective, operational reality, and current readiness.
Build credible evidence aligned with the applicable standard or framework.
Organise controls and records around recognised good practice.
Turn the framework into clear responsibilities and consistent activities.
Identify significant risks, impacts, dependencies, and required actions.
Prepare evidence for customer, scheme, or third-party assessment.
Demonstrate a disciplined and transparent approach to stakeholders.
A well-implemented Building and Civil Engineering Sustainability Benchmark Framework should strengthen daily work—not simply produce documents for an audit.
This section is tailored to the actual subject of the standard rather than using generic ISO wording.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC defines the responsible roles, practical controls, records, and evidence needed for this area.
NEC adapts the scope to the organisation size, activities, locations, customer requirements, and risk profile.
Not sure whether it is suitable? Share your business activity and objective with NEC for practical guidance.
The technical work changes by standard, while responsibilities, milestones, and evidence remain clear.
Understand activities, locations, people, objective, scope, and target timeline.
Review current processes, documents, controls, evidence, and priority gaps.
Define responsibilities, milestones, required documents, controls, and next steps.
Develop policies, procedures, forms, records, and controls around actual operations.
Guide employees and managers in applying responsibilities within daily work.
Evaluate implementation, complete internal audit or readiness checks, and address findings.
Prepare evidence and the team for the relevant customer, scheme, testing, or third-party review.
Maintain the framework, improve performance, and prepare for future review activities.
The final scope is confirmed after NEC reviews activities, locations, existing controls, and the required outcome.
A defined indicator and benchmark framework commonly takes 4–10 weeks. Data availability and portfolio complexity affect the programme.
Pricing depends on the number of indicators, asset or project scope, data sources, benchmark development, and reporting requirements.
NEC keeps the system understandable, relevant, and maintainable after the assessment is complete.
Clear explanations without unnecessary technical language.
Documents and controls shaped around the organisation—not copied from a generic pack.
Support from initial assessment through readiness and independent audit coordination.
A system designed to work in normal operations with manageable evidence.
Consultancy and coordination for organisations across the United Arab Emirates.
Responsive coordination, clear responsibilities, and practical next steps.
Send the company name, business activity, number of employees, and reason for requiring ISO 21678:2020 support. NEC will review the requirement and explain the next steps.
Final timing, pricing, and assessment arrangements are confirmed after the scope review.
No. It provides principles, requirements, and guidance for developing and using sustainability indicators and benchmarks. Any verification depends on the project or reporting scheme being used.
ISO 21678:2020 is the current published edition.
A defined indicator and benchmark framework commonly takes 4–10 weeks. Data availability and portfolio complexity affect the programme.
Pricing depends on the number of indicators, asset or project scope, data sources, benchmark development, and reporting requirements.
Yes. The scope and level of documentation are adapted to the organisation size, activities, risk, locations, and applicable requirements.
ISO 21678 provides principles, requirements, and guidance for sustainability indicators and benchmarks. It is not a general management-system certification standard; verification depends on the project, reporting framework, or assessment scheme.
Yes. NEC can define a multi-site scope, review common and location-specific processes, coordinate responsibilities, and prepare evidence across the required locations.
Whether the objective is a tender, customer requirement, improvement, compliance, or independent assessment, NEC is ready to support the next step.
