What was new in 2020?

23rd December 2020 - New Building LCA Metric and Imperial Excel import templates (all building LCA users)

New Excel templates for building LCA have been added for both Metric and Imperial format. In the Metric Excel template users can now use the European Level(s) classification and the Finnish Talo 2000. In the Imperial Excel template the Omniclass classification is now usable. These templates can be found on out 'Import from Excel' article. 

14th December 2020 - December Release notes (all users)

Release note highlights

Check the highlights of this release below, and view the downloadable PDF file for a full overview of the December release here.

Updates for all users in this release note include:

• New material data card design and functionality for better access to information
• Tabulated graphs in Results page for faster review

Summary of the release notes - Building LCA tool users

• Significant updates in manufacturing localization v2 beta method for higher accuracy
• Advanced material comparison updates
• Multiple RICS / GLA updates (UK users)

Summary of the release notes - Product LCA / EPD tool users

• Users can store own brand and EPD visuals in their company account and use them to create EPDs
• Branded constructions can be published for manufacturer specific systems (publishing happens via One Click LCA)
• New EPD graph with contribution by resource

30th November 2020 - RICS tool now allows 2nd leg of transport (all UK users)

In the RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment tool users are now able to report on a 2nd leg of transport for data-points in the building material query. The default distance of the second transportation leg is set to 0, to be defined by the user themselves. 

 

23rd November 2020 - RICS tool detailed report now shows expanded C1-C4 data (all UK users)

In the detailed report which can be generated from the results page from the RICS Whole life Carbon assessment tool, you will now find expanded C1-C4 data. This shows up in the results report if a more advanced end of life options has been chosen in the LCA parameters (market scenarios or EPD EOL scenarios).  The advanced end of life option generates C2, C3 and C4 data depending on the chosen end of life process. C1 data can be supplemented by choosing a deconstruction/demolition scenario from RICS in the 'Construction site operations' query. 

 

21st October 2020 - 48 New Infrastructure constructions are now available (all infra users)

New constructions include options for concrete road barriers, sidewalks, bike paths, head-walls, gullies, storm-water PVC pipes, and drainage / sewage concrete pipes.

 

21st October 2020 - October Release notes (all users)

Release note highlights

Check the highlights of this release below, and view the downloadable PDF file for a full overview of the October release here.

• New Advanced materials comparison allows optimizing your choices
• Send and receive data from investors, manufacturers, designers/builders with the 'Send data' feature
• Several updates for French (Energie+Carbone, HQE), UK (RICS) and Dutch (MPG/NMD3.0) users
• More than dozen Customer requests and over 100 smaller improvements and fixes
• One Click LCA Pre-Verified EPD Generator supports now also Metal Products and Building Chemicals
• Fully revised version of One Click LCA GHG Reporting software with significant database growth
• New forum for community support and feature requests

Summary of the release notes - Business licenses

• IDA ICE integration is available for 4.8 SP2 - Link
• Tekla Structural Designer: native One Click LCA integration coming with Service Pack 5 in Q4 - Link
• Excel import solution for Revit LT - Link

Summary of the release notes - Expert licenses

• New Advanced Material comparison enables you to easily compare carbon & cost for a range of products
• Requests for and send product and project LCA data immediately to any other One Click LCA user with Send data feature
• New graphs: Spidergram and stacked columns

Updates to E+C-, HQE, RICS and NMD 3.0

• RICS: New End-Of-Life model, continuous database expansion and numerous fixes based on customer requests
• E+C-: Custom classification, spidergram chart and additional messages for uploading RSET and exporting RSEE
• HQE: New End-Of-Life
• NMD 3.0: One Click LCA is now validated for using NMD 3.0

3rd August 2020 - Reporting of the B3 "Repair" stage is now enabled in the NS 3720 tool

Annual replacement ratio can now be defined for all materials within a project. The default value is always set to zero. Impacts related to the B3 "Repair" stage are reported as separate rows in the results table.

 

27th June 2020 - June Release notes (all users)

Release notes highlights

Check the highlights of this release below, and view the downloadable PDF file for a full overview of the June release here.

1. The One Click LCA Pre-Verified EPD Generator is now available and allows you to deliver easily and cost-efficiently EPDs according to EN 15804 + A1 + A2 amendments
2. The One Click LCA Flexible EPD and One Click LCA Product Carbon tools are now also available.
3. New data import workflow makes data handling options easier to use and apply when importing from BIM.
4. Expert users can now download data in Excel, do edits and Excel and upload them back to One Click LCA. 
5. French users are getting a range of significant updates in the Energie Carbone / RE2020 & HQE tools.
6. Users are now able to model reused materials or retained building parts more precisely in calculations
7. + over one hundred smaller improvements and fixes. 
8. Almost 9000 new resources have been added in 2020 since week 3! Data updates are reported weekly in the Database update log.

One Click LCA product level tools

1. Three new Product level LCA tools have been launched, One Click LCA Product Carbon, One Click LCA Flexible EPD and One Click LCA Pre-Verified EPD Generator.

Summary of the release notes - All license levels

1. Model reused materials or retained building parts easily and more precisely - Available in RICS, NS3720, NollCO2, BREEAM UK & Int't, Level(s), Global Carbon and Life Cycle Carbon - North Amerca
2. Clear option for disabling 'Material manufacturing localization', has been added to the LCA parameters.
3. New End-Of-Life model is now available in more tools - BREEAM UK & Int'l, All LEED tools, Level(s) and Life Cycle Carbon - North America. 
4. 11 other updates which can be read in the attached PDF file (bottom of the page)

Summary of the release notes - Business licenses

1. New import mapper workflow - Major improvements
2. Allow replacing constructions (same way as material replacements)

Summary of the release notes - Expert licenses

1. Expert users can now download data in Excel, edit and re-upload the file back to One Click LCA
2. New End-of-Life model - Experts users can make more edits in the tools in which this is available

Updates to the Energie Carbone & HQE tools

1. Mise à jour d'Energie Carbone à la version RSEnv 1.1.0.0, amélioration des saisies et corrections des calculs des seuils:
2. Les paramètres 'projet' nécessaires au RSEE sont saisis au niveau projet directement
3. L'utilisateur doit associer les zones du RSET avec celles de la modélisation et modéliser plusieurs bâtiments dans un même projet de manière distincte.
4. Nouvelles distinctions dans la partie 'description du bâtiment' est faite - pour faciliter la saisie des données nécessaires au calcul ACV et des niveaux de performance.
5. La possibilité de rentrer manuellement les coefficients nécessaires aux calculs des seuils Carbone quand on n'a pas de RSET > 8.1.0.0 v1.0 ou de RSET tout court.
6. Les valeurs seuils intermédiaires des indicateurs de performance sont maintenant visibles
7. Correction concernant la prise en compte des bénéfices quand ils sont négatifs pour les ignorer.
8. Correction pour ignorer les bénéfices export quand le champ export n'est pas rempli et que toute l'énergie est auto-consommée
9. Nouvel outil excel d'aide au calcul de consommation en eau potable pour Énergie Carbone (sur le centre support)  

Autres mises à jour:

1. Carbon Designer pour créer des variantes rapidement en phase amont, maintenant disponible dans l'outil HQE selon EN 15978
2. Fichier import excel dédié en français

22nd June 2020 - ICE database now available in RICS tool (UK users)

The ICE 3.0 database has now been enabled for the RICS tool. Some data-points will show a warning as they do not meet the RICS requirements for data.  

 

4th June 2020 - NollCO2 tool now supports B6 & B7 (Swedish users)

The NollCO2 tool now supports reporting operational water and energy. 

 

5th May 2020 - Site Designer (formerly Site selection impact) has received a significant upgrade (Available now to all users)

The Site Designer tool is intended for supporting the earliest phases of the project before any design at any level is started. It allows calculating comparative carbon impacts of choosing different sites, different energy supply and different end-user transport scenarios (e.g. based on public transport proximity). Site Designer tool allows calculating operating energy, underground construction, building construction, and end-user transportation impacts.

 

Building construction scenarios can be modelled for any building type and region globally. Average and 70 percentile values from Carbon Heroes Benchmark Program provide data allowing to account for expected impacts for the type of building. This is a dataset of some 130 high quality curated carbon profiles. These values can be adapted with site-specific underground construction impacts e.g. from piling, as well as site clearing.

 

Operating energy scenarios can be modelled for any building type and region globally. Ready-made standard values are in place for all Norwegian building types.

 

Operating transport scenarios can be modelled for any building type and region globally. Ready to use standard transport scenarios are in place for Norwegian transport scenarios as well as Helsinki Region Transport (Finland) transport scenarios. End-user can input transport assumptions for any other region themselves. Transport scenarios also consider average transport distance, frequency and transport mix between private car, carpooling, public transport by bus and by rail, and walking and biking. Parking availability impact can also be modelled.

 

Site Designer is well suited for comparing the impact of situating a project on different site with differences in any of the above factors.

 

3rd May 2020 - May Release notes (all users)

Release notes highlights

Check the highlights of this release below, and view the downloadable PDF file for a full overview of the May release here.

1. We introduce the Request for EPD feature to allow getting more data directly from manufacturers 
2. New machine-hours datasets and different types of soils for earth construction / Infrastructure projects
3. GHG protocol and CSR tools have fully new sets of graphs and extended Scope 3 emission data
4. Expert users: You can now add private data directly to the company account via the user interface
5. Expert users: Significant improvements for private constructions creation and management
6. This release launches a new tool, Site Designer, for carbon-conscious site selection decisions
7. With this release, we're soon launching the One Click LCA Pre-Verified EPD Generator. This tool will allow creating EPDs faster and more cost-efficiently.
8. Data updates are reported weekly in the Database update log
9. + over one hundred smaller improvements and fixes

Summary of release notes - all versions

1. Easily request EPDs directly from the manufacturer
2. Important data updates for earthmoving / Infrastructure construction
3. Results by life-cycle stage graph are updated
4. Navigation improvements
5. Option to archive completed projects added

Summary of release notes - Business & Expert 
Business features

1. Carbon heroes benchmarks now have additional metadata available
2. Users can create groups of materials, check that out here: Grouping materials
3. Import: Mapping basis clarification added 

Expert features

1. Several improvements to private construction creation functionality
2. Ability to add private data directly

New graphs and data for CSR tools

1. A completely new set of graphs available for CSR tools (GHG protocol, etc)
2. Significant Scope 3 data extension for construction and food services

New tool: Site designer

1. New tool for making informed choices about project location carbon impacts
2. Modelling impacts of available energy sources
3. Modelling end-user operational transport to and from the building
4. Modelling construction impacts

New tool: One Click LCA Pre-Verified EPD generator

1. A new tool which allows for creating EPDs faster and cheaper
2. Redeveloped filters, creating groups, two transport legs per material
3. Ecoinvent based data cards which contain more information
4. Ecoinvent data can be assigned an alias
5. More options for copying data

27th April 2020 - Significant data extensions in Scope 3 GHG tool with construction per square meter averages and food data libraries (CSR users)

In the tool 'Other indirect (Scope 3) GHG Emissions, in input data form 'Upstream activities (supply chain)', in 'Purchased goods and services (category 1)', new modelling option for food services, catering and restauration is provided. 

 

Approximately 200 datasets for different types of foodstuffs can be found under 'Activity data: catering, restauration and food services'.

 

Modelling construction projects with average embodied carbon figures from Carbon Heroes Benchmark Program is now possible. The datasets provide both arithmetic average datasets for global or regional building types, and for some building types and markets also market-specific averages exist. In addition to average datasets, also 70 percentile datasets are provided. The 70 percentile datasets capture some of the inherent uncertainty in average datasets with non-normal distribution. The datasets are provided per m2 gross internal floor area, so adding building construction completion is possible just by adding the total floor area constructed. The dataset comprises circa 130 profiles created out of thousands of real-life projects.

 

These datasets can be found in 'Activity data: construction completion per building types', both in input data form 'Upstream activities (supply chain)' under 'Capital goods (category 2)' as well as in input data form 'Downstream activities (distribution and use)' under 'Investments (category 15)'.

 

21st April 2020 - Important update for projects involving earthmoving and machinery hours (Infrastructure users)

All tools that include 'Construction site operations' scope now have access to Machine hours as part of Energy use on the site reporting. These can be found in separate question called 'Machine hours'. The machine hours provides over 40 different machine hour profiles that can be used in calculations. The machine hours are very well suited for early-stage calculations when measured data is not yet available but hours of machine use can be estimated. For as-built calculations, you can instead use the actual fuel types and consumption into the 'Fuel consumption' question above.

All One Click LCA generic earth masses, such as aggregate, gravel, soil, clay soil, macadam, sand, soil are now provided with both wet and dry bulk densities. This will allow calculating transport impacts of wet and dry masses correctly. We are further refining the densities to provide options for loose and compacted densities for these materials in the next weeks. This will not change any existing calculations but provide more options.

20th April 2020 - Customized assemblies are now available for the earthquake scenarios (North American Carbon Designer users)

The new assemblies for columns and beams are developed to match best the recently updated earthquake scenarios and are developed based on concrete buildings. The new profiles are assigned automatically when an earthquake scenario is selected.

 

14th April 2020 - New project parameters and RICS biogenic carbon storage (All users)

New project parameters can now be defined in project level

Users can now define the number of floors and frame type at a project level. This will help improve the accuracy and detail of project benchmarks and LCA Checker.

 

RICS tool now reports biogenic  carbon storage

Users can now access in the detailed report the biogenic carbon storage for each material, while the total value for each stage is demonstrated under the updated field "Assessment of biogenic carbon and mass of materials, RICS" in the Results page.

 

10th April 2020 - Corrections dans l'outil Energie Carbone (French users)

1. Afin d'éviter les doubles comptages, la phase utilisation des équipements techniques du bâtiment (PEP) étaient précédemment exclue, car les PEP ne contenaient pas le détail nécessaire des modules B1-B7. Cependant tout nouveau PEP publié après 2019 qui contient les impacts distincts pour les modules B2 à B5 seront intégrés aux calculs.
2. Le bénéfice total au-delà du cycle de vie est maintenant soustrait aux Eges (en plus du Eges PCE) en ligne avec le référentiel

7th April 2020 - New machine operation profiles, Carbon Designer, HS2 and NollCO2 updates (All users)

New profiles for machine operation are now available

42 new resources are now available in the "Construction site operations" tab in relevant tools.

The resources can be found in the field "Machine hours and other site fuel consumption" (previously named as "Site fuel consumption").

 

Permanent update to HS2 tool

A range of changes were implemented in the HS2 tool in line with advice from HS2.

1. Biogenic carbon was added as a separate impact category
2. "EPD" checkbox is now available for all material inputs. Any materials marked as EPD will be then added to the "List of EPDs used" in the Results page.
3. "Ecopoints" and "Radioactive waste" impact categories were removed

Italy & Southern Europe 2020.2 (Beta) template is now available for all Carbon Designer users

The new region brings several updates including:

1. Improvements for a range of assemblies, including igloo slab and walls.
2. Assumptions were made available the comments section
3. Optimization of the baseline's configuration to include concrete in situ slabs and clay brick walls, along with the pillar-beam structural system
4. For hollow clay bricks slabs, precompressed joists were also added in the constructions and layers were broken down analytically
5. Improvements in the selection of baseline environmental profiles for bricks and plaster

Lavkarbonbetong 2019 profiles are available in all tools, including Carbon Designer

Lavkarbonbetong 2019 profiles have been added in the platform and are now available also as alternative options in Carbon Designer.

 

NollCO2 workflows updates

New workflow "NollCO2 reference building workflow (BETA)" has been published and includes guidance on how to create a reference building for NollCO2 using Carbon Designer.  The existing workflow on how to complete an LCA for NollCO2, was renamed to "NollCO2 workflow (BETA)"

 

31st March 2020 - Carbon Designer European reference building updated (EU Carbon Designer users)

The EU template in Carbon Designer, now supports fully the new seismicity scenarios with customized column and beam assemblies for each scenario

 

30th March 2020 - Tool for Swedish Klimatdeklaration (förslag, or proposed method) is now available (Swedish users)

This tool allows calculating scopes A1-A5 according to Boverket's proposed method for Klimatdeklaration av byggnader. The tool will be updated with the official national database as soon as Boverket releases it. Boverket has indicated that database release could be in January 2021.

15th March 2020 - Minor updates to LCC results page (TRACI and CML LCC users)

In the TRACI and CML based life cycle costing tools the constituent categories on the results page have been expanded so more details can be seen.

15th March 2020 - March release notes (All users)

Summary of release highlights - all users

1. This release delivers 10 customer-requested features
2. Significant improvements to visual comparisons on the project main page
3. Favourite materials can be stored in an organisation profile for quick access to your common choices
4. Simplified default LCA parameter setup introduced
5. Carbon Heroes Benchmarks have been updated
6. Data update: 2840 new resources and a new database update log under the 'Help' menu
7. From this version, all materials, including building technology, doors and windows can be inputted in any section in materials

Release highlights for Business and Expert licenses

1. Business: Improvements to import
2. Business: Improved resource data information
3. Expert: Create private constructions (assemblies) for your organisation from existing projects
4. Expert: Additional new treemap visualisations

Carbon Designer update

1. Improvements for seismic structures & data grouping
2. New Carbon Designer regions for Southern Europe and Sweden added

Read the release notes in full here: March 2020 release notes

 

6th March 2020 - YM workflow & NollCO2 wastage and workflow added (Finnish and Swedish users)

All Finnish clients that have a building license and the YM tool now have access to a workflow describing all steps to take for the YM assessment.
Swedish users with the NollCO2 tool now have wastage percentages enabled in the building material query, which are prefilled but can be manually changed. Additionally, a workflow for NollCO2 has been added to the tool as well, which is available to all Swedish building users. This workflow is a BETA and will still be updated.

 

27th February 2020 - RICS tool stages A4 & A5 separated (All UK users)

Previously in the RICS whole life carbon tool, the A4 and A5 stages were combined on the results page. These are now separated as per the reporting guide.

 

31st January 2020 - New tool for NollCO2 - Inbyggd klimatskuld (BETA) (All Swedish users)

The BETA version of the new NollCO2 tool is now available to all Swedish users. The current MB3 tool which previously has also been used for NollCO2 cannot be used for NollCO2 anymore and has been renamed. A workflow for NollCO2 will be made available soon also.

 

29th January 2020 - HQE tool updated (All French users)

The HQE tool now supports all the needed impact categories according to the Référentiel HQE Bâtiment Durable V3 (2019).

To see results for the new impact categories the materials query must be resaved.

 

19th January 2020 - Treemap graph added (All users)

The graphs section on the results page has been expanded with the option to display the results in Treemap format. The results can be downloaded in several image formats as well as excel or CSV.

 

17th January 2020 - One Click LCA Simplebim 8 Plugin (All Simplebim users)

A final version of the plugin for Simplebim 8 is now available. The 3D visualization is now also working in this version. You can download the updated version from the attachments on the Simplebim integration page.

 

9th January 2020 - Climate Earth database updated (All North American users)

Over 20.000 plant-specific datapoints for Ready-Mix concretes are now updated with full emission data for all the impact categories. These data points are available in the LEED tools for US & Canada and the Life Cycle Carbon - Global tool. Press release: One Click LCA Integrates with Climate Earth concrete data

 

3rd January 2020 - One Click LCA Simplebim 8 Plugin BETA (All Simplebim users)

A BETA version of the plugin for Simplebim 8 is now available. The 3D visualization is not working in this version yet. A newer version of the plugin with full functionality will be available soon. You can download the BETA version from the attachments on the Simplebim integration page.