Life Cycle Assessment tools and other useful links
There are many Life Cycle Assessment tools for performing building LCA. Here’s a list of LCA tools and useful links. Carbon Designer for Ireland (No Longer Available) One Click LCA […]
There are many Life Cycle Assessment tools for performing building LCA. Here’s a list of LCA tools and useful links.
Carbon Designer for Ireland (No Longer Available)
One Click LCA
Used in 170+ countries, One Click LCA is the leading end-to-end sustainability platform for construction and manufacturing. The AI-powered software decarbonises and drives sustainability across the construction value chain with scientific, easy-to-use, automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs) to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects and products. The platform also allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle cost, and biodiversity. One Click LCA is used by blue-chip enterprises like AECOM, Arcadis, Foster+Partners, WSP, ArcelorMittal, Geberit, and Saint-Gobain, among others. It offers a unique global database with +250,000 LCA datasets; supports +80 standards and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB and other national regulations; and seamlessly integrates with +20 of the most widely used BIM software tools, including Autodesk Revit®, Tekla Structures® and Bentley iTwin®. One Click LCA was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2001, with a team of +200 people on all continents.
ICE database
The ICE database offers more generic average data drawn from EPDs. It is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet – useful for early stage estimating and as a learning tool. https://circularecology.com/embodied-carbon-footprint-database.html
ICE concrete EC estimator tool
The ICE Concrete EC estimator can quickly compare the carbon differences of concrete recipes depending on the type, cement replacement opportunities and overall volume. As concrete is often the largest contributor to embodied carbon, particularly if used in the structural frame of the building, this can give an indication of the largest single area on which to focus design attention.
EC3 Tool
The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows benchmarking, assessment and reductions in embodied carbon, focused on the upfront supply chain emissions of construction materials. https://www.buildingtransparency.org/
Etool
A global leader in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software for buildings and infrastructure. https://etoolglobal.com/
Tally Revit plugin
Tally Revit is the first LCA app that lets you calculate the environmental impacts of your building material selections directly in an Autodesk® Revit® model. https://choosetally.com/
HawkinsBrown Revit plug in
HawkinsBrown is an easy-to-use open-source Revit-based tool that enables design teams to quickly analyse and clearly visualise the embodied carbon emissions of different building components and construction material options at any time during the design process. https://www.hawkinsbrown.com/services/hbert
The Structural Carbon Tool
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