There are many Life Cycle Assessment tools for performing building LCA. Here’s a list of LCA tools and useful links.
Carbon Designer for Ireland
The Carbon Designer tool is a simple way to estimate the carbon impact of your project at an early stage of building design. The tool is free and quickly shows you the differences you can make to the overall carbon impact by selecting different material build ups of large elements such as walls, floors and roof. https://www.igbc.ie/carbon-designer-for-ireland/
OneClick LCA
OneClickLCA is a full suite LCA tool and the market leader in Europe. It provides the tools necessary to carry out a Levels compliant LCA as well as others for certification programs such as BREEAM and LEED. http://oneclicklca.com
ICE database
The ICE database offers more generic average data drawn from EPDs. It is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet – useful for early stage estimating and as a learning tool. https://circularecology.com/embodied-carbon-footprint-database.html
ICE concrete EC estimator tool
The ICE Concrete EC estimator can quickly compare the carbon differences of concrete recipes depending on the type, cement replacement opportunities and overall volume. As concrete is often the largest contributor to embodied carbon, particularly if used in the structural frame of the building, this can give an indication of the largest single area on which to focus design attention. https://circularecology.com/concrete-embodied-carbon-footprint-calculator.html
EC3 Tool
The Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows benchmarking, assessment and reductions in embodied carbon, focused on the upfront supply chain emissions of construction materials. https://www.buildingtransparency.org/
Etool
A global leader in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software for buildings and infrastructure. https://etoolglobal.com/
Tally Revit plugin
Tally Revit is the first LCA app that lets you calculate the environmental impacts of your building material selections directly in an Autodesk® Revit® model. https://choosetally.com/
HawkinsBrown Revit plug in
HawkinsBrown is an easy-to-use open-source Revit-based tool that enables design teams to quickly analyse and clearly visualise the embodied carbon emissions of different building components and construction material options at any time during the design process. https://www.hawkinsbrown.com/services/hbert
