Illustrations by Wenting Li; Layout by Ed Mann
To celebrate environmental sustainability, Bluebeam decided for the second year in a row to put together an infographic showing how use of Bluebeam Studio helped promote a more sustainable construction industry.
![In 2020, Bluebeam helped the construction industry digitize documents totaling …
… 80 million
Creating this many documents digitally instead of using paper saves roughly 4.5 million kilowatt-hours of energy, or 2.3 million pounds of greenhouse gases.
80 million pieces of paper is equal to about 800,000 pounds, the weight of a pod of humpback whales.
That many sheets of paper would cost around $800,000, which could buy roughly 2,000 tablet computers for construction workers to use on a jobsite.
80 million pieces of paper, when laid end to end, would stretch into the distance for roughly 12,000 miles, about the length of the Pacific Ocean.](https://blog.bluebeam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sustainability2021-main-1.png)