Building life-cycle assessment onboarding
Learn how to use One Click LCA in this free course designed for those looking to understand construction life-cycle assessment and One Click LCA's features and functions.
“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!”
Lucienne Mosquera (Hotel Life Cycle | Footprint | Assessment | Costing | Strategy)“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.”
Tunde Okeowo (Tech IOSH, Public Health at HarvardX)“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.”
Thao Bui (Alice) (Ph.D. Candidate at Massey University)“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.”
April Wang (Green Building Strategist at Recollective Consulting)“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.”
Lina Šeduikytė (Professor at Kaunas University of Technology)“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.”
Medha Naik (Architect, Sustainability consultant, IGBC AP)“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.”
Monisha Royan (Analyst at International WELL Building Institute (IWBI))“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.”
Chaza Rammal (Chemical Engineer | Interested iSustainability, Energy Transition & Decarbonization Strategies)“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.”
Jacob Mathew (Energy Engineer | Architectural Engineer, United Arab Emirates)“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.”
Carlos Jimenez (Assistant Professor in Building Services and Environmental Design at University of Nottingham)Course overview
Planning for your success
Life-cycle assessment & life-cycle stages
Types of data & availability
Your homepage
Help Centre
Named and concurrent licenses
Your license & company account
Creating a project
Creating a design
Setting up LCA parameters
Setting up life-cycle costing (LCC) parameters
Selecting additional calculation tools
Building materials
Adding & editing building materials data
Expert features
Energy & water consumption
Construction site operations
Emissions and removals
Calculation period & building area
Certification & regulatory calculations
Add-on calculation tools
Data import overview
Carbon Designer 3D
Importing data from Microsoft Excel
Importing data from Autodesk Revit
Data importing process
Results overview & reporting
Carbon Heroes Benchmark
Plausibility checker & most-contributing materials
Result graphs
Comparing designs
In this course, students will learn how to use One Click LCA to conduct life-cycle assessments aimed at reducing embodied carbon in their construction projects. The course will enable students to:
Grasp the core concepts of LCA, including building life-cycle stages, environmental impact assessment, and the data required for performing LCA.
Understand the main features and functions of One Click LCA through practical, follow-along demonstrations.
Learn how to automate and manage LCA data imports from various BIM plugins, as well as One Click LCA's modelling tool, Carbon Designer 3D.
Interpret, understand, and act on the results of a comprehensive life-cycle assessment.