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- Feb 12, 2022 | Last update check: 1 minute ago
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One Click LCA Building Circularity Tool is a cloud-based circular economic tool that provides a mass-based assessment and can be combined with any LCA or LCC tool. There are masses of virgin materials, masses that are renewable, recycled and reused, sources that go into your building and then what is actually coming out when the building is dismantled. The lifespan of a building can be a long time – 50 or 100 years – but we act with the best knowledge that we have today. As an user, you need to know material quantities. The software will give you defaults, which can be either defaults for the material type or the specific values for EPD, but you can adjust all of these values.
The tool’s primary goal is to calculate the circularity percentage of a building. It does not have a mandatory scope and can be used to access single materials or whole buildings. The tool contains reduce-reuse-recycle principle, value preservation principle, design for adaptability and design for disassembly practices.
The tool includes several sections:
- Building material query. Enter data about your materials. You can edit: the percentage of recycled, renewable or reused contents in the materials (some products have default values, based either on the product or the type of product); the construction site wastage for the material; check/uncheck the DfD (Design for Disassembly) and DfA (Design for Adaptability) options if the material meets those practices; EOL (End of Life) process.
- Circularity score weighting factors. Adjust the weighting factors for your materials recovered and materials returned.
- Calculation period. Enter the service life of the building.
- Results page. Visualize and understand your circularity results. You get the Building Circularity score, which is the average from the materials recovered added up to the materials returned.
About One Click LCA platform
One Click LCA is a cloud-based life-cycle metrics software that helps reduce cost, carbon and materials use. It allows you to calculate LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), LCC (Life Cycle Costing), Carbon footprint and other environmental impacts. It provides carbon benchmarks for quite many regions in the world, circularity metrics and costing tool. One Click LCA allows you to bring your data in. It doesn’t matter if you do LCA, LCC or circular economy. You can bring data from any design tool you work with, including spreadsheets. One Click LCA integrates any qualifying data, product manufacturer declared or industry generic environmental impact data that can be used for LCA assessments. One Click LCA complies with over 40 certification systems.
One Click LCA platform serves manufacturers, consultants, designers, contractors, and investors to decarbonize the entire construction value chain. The software can be used for buildings, infrastructure, renovations, construction products and materials, and portfolios.
About Circular Economy
In Circular Economy materials are retained in use at their highest value for as long as possible and are then reused or recycled, leaving a minimum of residual waste. Buildings that promote circular economy aim to be net zero-waste. Optimal circular economic goal is to keep on reusing materials. For example, you could unbolt your window and put it in the next building without breaking or refurbishing it; or reuse steel beam as it is, without recycling it. Recycling is good because it keeps the material in the flow; but it is one step down from reusing. Recycling typically includes some sort of process and there are transport, water use and energy use involved.
Circular economy is not associated with clarity: there are a lot of ways to think about it. UKGBC’s Circular Economy guidance specifies how to practically apply circular economy principles at the project brief stage:
- Reuse (including refurbish and repurpose)
- Design buildings for optimization
- Standardization or modularization
- Servitisation and leasing
- Design and construct responsibly
About One Click LCA Ltd
One Click LCA Ltd (formerly Bionova Ltd) is founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki, Finland. In July 2021, Bionova Ltd has changed its business name to One Click LCA Ltd. The name change is aligning the business name with the name of their flagship product, One Click LCA, which is a buildings and construction products LCA software platform and their registered trademark.
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