Sustainability & Performance
What is LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)?
A life cycle assessment quantifies a building's environmental impact across its whole life — material production, construction, operation, maintenance, and end of life. Whole-life carbon combines embodied and operational emissions into one accounting.
In practice
LCAs used to be end-of-design reports; current tools run them live during design so material and system choices show their carbon consequences immediately, and many certifications and regulations now require them.
Tools for LCA
One Click LCA
Fast embodied carbon and LCA for buildings — integrates with Revit and more
Cove.tool
Web-based software for analyzing, drawing, load modeling, and connecting data for building design and construction.
Sterling
SaaS preconstruction platform unifying 2D/3D takeoff, resource-based cost estimating and embodied carbon in a single workflow.
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