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Life Cycle Assessment
Whitepapers
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Download your free Building Life Cycle Assessment White Paper
Download a copy of our free Building Life Cycle Assessment White Paper and become an expert in building sustainability.
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Building Life Cycle Assessment article: Overview of Whole Building LCA
Read our peer-reviewed article “Overview of Whole Building Life-Cycle Assessment for Green Building Certification and Ecodesign through Industry Surveys and Interviews”.
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State of the Art in Building Life-Cycle Assessment — Whitepaper released
Bionova’s new Whitepaper explains why Life-cycle Assessments (LCAs) are an essential part of the construction and land sales projects.
Life Cycle Assessment Guides
Analyzing life cycle carbon footprint of buildings – Wooden Structures
Analyzing building life cycle carbon impacts has became part of the design process. Why do carbon footprint calculations matter?
Cómo abordar el análisis de ciclo de vida en edificios para un desarrollo sustentable
Necesitamos entender los impactos de los edificios a lo largo de su ciclo de vida para fijarnos metas para mejorarlos. Lea este artículo para aprender más.
How to leverage integrative building LCA to maximize embodied carbon reduction
Learn how to use integrative LCA and energy models at the design stage to significantly reduce embodied carbon in your Green Building construction project.
Low Carbon Refurbishment: 10 ways to reduce embodied carbon emissions
Read our guide to Low Carbon Refurbishment and discover 10 ways to reduce carbon emissions for your Refurbishment and Retrofit projects.
The business case for BREEAM 2018 Mat 01
Read our guide to the opportunities and challenges of Mat 01 credits for BREEAM UK 2018.
10 design commandments to cut your building’s embodied carbon
Read our 10 design commandments for embodied carbon reduction in construction.
BIM-Based Life Cycle Assessment
How to create and deliver Building Information Models for automated Life Cycle Assessment.
BIM for sustainable building design with Model Checker
BIM models are rarely perfect, but with our Model Checker they can be perfected for more accurate and faster LCA calculations.
10 essential facts about Building Life Cycle Assessment
Everything you wanted to ask about Building Life Cycle Assessment but were too afraid to ask.
Green Building Movie Posters
Curious how Green Building would look like if it was a movie by Wes Anderson or Sofia Coppola? Find out how we reimagined Green Building as movie posters.
The business case for Building Life Cycle Assessment
How to sell Building Life Cycle Assessment services and save the world.
Life Cycle Assessment from Revit
Life Cycle Assessment from Revit allows you to cut down the time required for an LCA by 85%. Read this article to find out how.
How to choose a Building Life Cycle Assessment tool
Want to know how to choose the perfect Building Life Cycle Assessment tool for your needs?
Climate change explained: a guide for construction specialists
Want to understand climate change? Read this easy to understand guide for non experts and find out what construction specialists can do.
Life-Cycle Assessment Guide for Green Building experts — Part 2
Read our second part of the Life-Cycle Assessment Guide for Green Building experts to find out if LCA is the right option for your and your projects.
Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
The Business Case for Life Cycle Costing in Construction
Discover how to earn higher profits with Life Cycle Costing and how to make it appealing for your investors
Life Cycle Costing in Construction: Reduce your building’s lifetime costs
Life Cycle Costing in Construction guide: learn how to achieve building resilience and optimize your costs.
Environmental product declaration (EPD)
EPDs Comparability
EPDs can be compared to select the most sustainable materials for your building. Learn how to leverage them and avoid sub-optimization.
Quality and consistency for Whole Building LCAs using product-specific EPDs
How to ensure quality and consistency for whole-building LCAs using product-specific EPDs.
Using EPDs for Building LCA
A guide to using EPDs for Building LCA and the role of EPDs and generic data in Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment.
BREEAM, LEED & National certifications
Designing Net Zero Carbon Buildings Article
What is Net Zero Carbon? Why does it matter? And how to design and account for Net Zero Carbon buildings? Read all about it here.
Review of LEED v4.1 draft EPD credits
LEED v4.1 draft for EPD credits is a valiant attempt with serious casting flaws. Find out why and how to fix them.
The business case for BREEAM 2018 Mat 01
Read our guide to the opportunities and challenges of Mat 01 credits for BREEAM UK 2018.
LEED v4.1 LCA credits
Read our guide to the changes in LEED v4.1 LCA and discover the new approach to material credits in LEED.
Differences between klimagassregnskap.no and One Click LCA Norge NS 3720
Read how One Click LCA Norge NS 3720 tool replaces klimagassregnskap.no and how you benefit from this change.
DGNB 2018 LCA credits
DGNB 2018 has introduced a lot of changes when it comes to LCA credits, read this guide to find out what’s new.
The Hitchhiker’s guide to BREEAM UK NC 2018 LCA credits
Read our guide to BREEAM UK NC 2018 Life-Cycle Metrics related credits and find out how to get up to 24 credits with One Click LCA.
LCA credits in Green Building certifications
Want to know about LCA credits in all major Green Building certification schemes? Read our guide about LCA Green Building credits.
Level(s): the new EU framework for Sustainable Buildings
Level(s): the new EU framework to measure the performance of sustainable buildings is another step towards Green Building standardization.
DK-DGNB ENV 1.1 and ENV 2.1 credits Made Easy
Calculate DK-DGNB ENV 1.1 and ENV 2.1 credits with ease with One Click LCA.
One Click LCA: 100% BREEAM rating for Mat 01 credits
One Click LCA is the highest rated LCA software for BREEAM in the world: 100% Mat 01 rating makes achieving maximal credits even easier!
Guide Energie Carbone
Ce que vous devez savoir sur Énergie Carbone et comment le label affectera votre projet de construction. Lisez ce guide simple sur le nouveau label Énergie Carbone.
One Click LCA at Greenbuild: Life Cycle Assessment for LEED
We are official Greenbuild speakers, presenting sessions on Life Cycle Assessment for LEED v4 in Greenbuild US and China.
LCA & LCC credits in BREEAM-NOR 2016
LCA and LCC can now deliver up to nine credits in BREEAM-NOR 2016, and further credits can be earned with additional tracking tools.
LEED compliant Life Cycle Assessment Software
Get a standardized Life Cycle Assessment report for all your LEED projects and achieve MRc credits easily.
One Click LCA New Features
Send me data from BIM
One Click LCA’s new features ‘Send me data from BIM’ allows LCA experts to receive data from BIM experts without installing any BIM software. Find out more.
SAP 10 Carbon Factors are now included to One Click LCA reporting
The UK Government’s Standard Assessment Procedure SAP 10 carbon factors are now available to use in One Click LCA software.
One Click LCA allows everyone to do environmental assessments for buildings and products
Life-Cycle Assessments can now be completed in just minutes with One Click LCA.
One Click LCA makes building environmental assessment a hundred times faster with BIM
One Click LCA allows non-experts to complete an LCA for a building in less than an hour.
One Click LCA is now IMPACT-compliant
“We are very pleased that One Click LCA has become IMPACT compliant”, says Flavie Lowres, Associate Director at BRE. “IMPACT allows consistent integration of LCA data with BIM. “
Highest rated LCA software for BREEAM
BRE’s rating for BREEAM Int’l 2016 LCA tools confirmed One Click LCA’s leadership for the third time in a row.