One Click LCA is updated to RICS spec

The environmental data specialist One Click LCA has announced that it has updated its software to comply with the latest standards from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

It says its platform will now enable design professionals to align with the new RICS whole-life carbon assessment professional standard, 2nd edition.

As a Greater London Authority and Breeam-approved tool for nationally recognised assessment methodologies, the One Click LCA software and compliance update is a ‘critical modification’, says the organisation.

Specifically, the One Click LCA software now includes:

• Decarbonised and non-decarbonised results for materials and operational impacts.

• Default scenarios, according to RICS, for life cycle stages A5, B2, B3, and end-of-life.

• RICS categories updated to match the NRM3.

• New input page for pre-construction inputs affecting A0 and A5.1 stages.

• New transportation profiles account for a proportion of return trip impacts.

B2 and B3 scenarios enabled.

• Added worker transportation inputs.

• Scenarios added for Pre-construction demolition (A5.1), Construction site works (A5.2), Demolition/deconstruction stage (C1).

• New sub-categories for various LCA stages (A5, B1, B7) to align with the reporting requirements.

• Contingency and uncertainty factors.

• Automated report generation.

RICS says its updated standard addresses the immediate needs of the industry and positions RICS as a leading framework for achieving sustainable and net-zero goals across the built and natural environments.

The 2nd edition extends the existing RICS WLCA standard to cover all buildings and infrastructure throughout the built environment life cycle.

This gives visibility to embodied carbon, operational carbon, and user carbon — including those for lighting – which are vital to carbon calculations and a unique feature of the RICS standard.

OneClick LCA is used by many big firms including Skanska, AECOM, WSP, Foster+Partners, LafargeHolcim and Saint Gobain.

‘We help architects, designers, and other players in the construction value chain decarbonise their projects. As the software of choice for construction professionals, we needed to ensure we enabled the industry to align easily with the new RICS standard’, says Johanna Jarvinen, New Products Lead at One Click LCA.

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