2025 Saint-Gobain Architecture Student Contest | Building LCA Academy
Learn to deliver building LCAs and whole-life carbon studies for buildings at early stage design
This course is designed for Architecture students to provide the skills to perform building LCA and whole life carbon assessments at early stage design.
The construction sector's impact on the environment, the need for building sustainability, and the regulations driving them.
The LCA core concepts, including building life-cycle stages, environmental impact assessment, and the data required for performing LCA
Practical building LCA software training based on EU Level(s) framework
How to automate LCA data imports from BIM & Revit models and how to perform Building LCA at early stage of a project using Carbon Designer 3D tool.
Course overview
Accessing the One Click LCA Software
Session 1 - Building LCA and introduction to the One Click LCA software - recording and slides
Session 2 - Measuring and optimizing environmental impacts - recording and slides
Optional self-study materials
Exam
Don't have the time to join our live training bootcamp? Access recordings at any time from your Academy dashboard.
Two practical live sessions and versatile learning contents with self-study materials and assignments.
Tutorials on how to access and use One Click LCA software for your building assessments.
Free One Click LCA training license for selected tools, available until the end of the Architecture Student Contest.
A Certificate issued upon successfully passing the course exam.
“I learned that life cycle thinking is fundamental to delivering a sustainable building. I also learned that with One Click, the optimization process is almost ‘easy’ and facilitates good collaboration. Felt that the whole circularity piece and being able to measure that is also very powerful. Thanks for such a great course and for sharing such great insights!”
“Thank you to the team for putting together this summer school. The team showed us as much as they could about the One Click LCA tool and I agree that it is indeed very versatile and user-friendly. Thank you for bringing clarity to the difference between the two assessment methods for LCI data characterization -TRACI & CML. That is one of my takeaways from the introductory sessions. Now, we keep working and building on what we learned.”
“Thank you very much for a wonderful summer school course. That was very helpful for my Ph.D. research. I have learned a lot and broadened my knowledge in LCA and how we can optimize carbon reduction for buildings. Looking forward to attending other training courses in the future if any.”
“Thanks so much for this great summer school course. It was my first time learning about this subject and using any tools for embodied carbon. Definitely learned a lot and can't wait until LCA becomes a mandatory requirement in North America and Asia. Embodied energy really is the next big thing we need to be focusing on, for us to build and have a better future. Many thanks, again.”
“I want to say thank you to all the One Click LCA team for the summer school!!! You put so much effort into preparing information for the 3 weeks course, was so professional with different LCA and sustainability subjects, and was so patient with replaying all our questions.”
“Thank you very much for such a wonderful summer school, which has a complete understanding about LCA, tutors were incredible. ONE CLICK LCA is a great tool. Answering so many questions made us easy to understand.. along with the informative lectures.. Thank you so much to the team of One Click LCA.”
“Thank you so much One Click LCA team. This was really a great summer school, I was able to understand the concepts so well and the exam was a great experience to reinforce my knowledge.”
“Thank you so much for offering this course for free. I am glad I got the opportunity to attend this summer school with such amazing tutors. This course is designed to help you get exposed to the One Click LCA Software, through interactive online sessions and formative assessment and feedback. It gives you a comprehensive view of the main resources on how to decarbonize our buildings through life cycle assessment over a 3 weeks period . I loved the discussion forums and all the support provided by the panellist, and all professors showed a high level of expertise and professionalism. Many thanks to the whole LCA team for their efforts! Highly recommended.”
“A great tool, great course and amazing tutors - especially taking the time to answer the hundreds of questions after each class! Thanks to the One click team for this course and their efforts.”
“It was a great pleasure to take part in the summer school. Really an amazing team and so much knowledge. The team really put forward all the learning in an easy and straightforward way. I can highly recommend anyone interested in LCA to attend the next summer school. Thank you very much One Click LCA Steven Zijlstra Panu Pasanen.”