Coworking Space Carbon Footprint Assessment

Measure Your Coworking Space's Carbon Footprint

As coworking spaces become central to the modern workplace, understanding and reducing their environmental impact is more important than ever. This Coworking Space Carbon Footprint Assessment helps facility managers, sustainability coordinators, and workspace operators collect detailed data on energy consumption, member behavior, and building efficiency to create actionable sustainability reports.

Why This Assessment Matters

Coworking spaces have unique environmental dynamics. Shared facilities, flexible memberships, and varying occupancy patterns make carbon tracking more complex than traditional offices—but also create opportunities for significant environmental gains through resource sharing and optimization.

This template helps you:

• Track member commute patterns to understand transportation-related emissions
• Measure energy usage per desk and identify high-consumption areas
• Assess equipment sharing effectiveness and resource utilization
• Evaluate building efficiency metrics including HVAC, lighting, and renewable energy use
• Benchmark sustainability performance against industry standards

Built for Coworking Operators and ESG Teams

Whether you're a boutique coworking space, a large workspace network, or a property manager adding flexible workspace offerings, this form collects the granular data needed for ESG reporting, carbon offset programs, and sustainability certifications like LEED or BREEAM.

The assessment covers everything from daily operational metrics to broader facility infrastructure, helping you identify quick wins (like encouraging bike commutes or optimizing heating schedules) and long-term improvements (like solar panel installations or energy-efficient retrofits).

Automate Your Sustainability Workflow

Once you've collected assessment data, Paperform's Stepper workflows (stepper.io) can automatically route responses to your sustainability team, update carbon tracking dashboards in Airtable or Google Sheets, and trigger follow-up surveys to members about green initiatives. You can even set up conditional logic to flag high-energy usage areas that need immediate attention or celebrate members with low-carbon commute patterns.

This assessment integrates seamlessly with the tools coworking operators already use—from facility management software to ESG reporting platforms—making it easy to turn raw data into actionable insights and meaningful carbon reduction strategies.