Creating A Project

In order to begin performing your calculation, you need to create a project. The available project types will be determined by the type of license you have purchased. If you have not purchased a license yet, you can also start a trial project or use our free Planetary tool: Getting Started With One Click LCA Planetary.

How To Create Your First Project

1. Select your project type

• Click the 'Add' or 'Start a free trial' button at the top-right of the screen to choose the type of project you wish to create as shown below.
• If you have a commercial license to one of the modules, it will say 'License available'. If you have purchased a concurrent license you will need to check out your license first. 

2. Link your license and fill in some basic information about your project

If you are a commercial user:

• The first step in project creation is linking the project to your commercial license. 
• If you are not sure if you have the right access, check out our article related to activating a commercial license here. 

If you are trialing One Click LCA: 

• A number of available trial options will show up, you can start either of these however the most common trial option based on your geography will be listed on the top. 
• For more information on starting a trial, check out the related article here. 

If you are a student or educational user: 

• Students or educational users use the license slightly differently from commercial users, in the majority of cases they activate their projects using a license key.
• If you are a student and requested a free student license, check out the following article.
• If you are a student and use One Click LCA through your university, check out this article. 

Add information about your project location and type. You will need to add a project name, type, and country as these are mandatory fields.

3. Add any optional information you wish to add to your project

Add further details about the Gross Floor Area, number of floors, frame type, etc. of your project. You can also click to choose a certification pursued. However, this selection does not affect the LCA calculations, it only shows an icon of the pursued certification on the main page beside the project name. These fields do not need to be completed, and any details can be edited after the project has been created.

Once you click 'Next' you have created your project and can continue by creating designs.

Creating More Projects

All following projects can be created by simply clicking the 'Add' button located at the top of the home page.