Carbon and cost optimal materials specifier

What does this feature do?

This feature allows you to make ad hoc materials comparisons without having to create a range of designs. These calculations do not interact with any designs in any way. They can be used for example to choose the best flooring material without having to create a set of designs for flooring.

How do you use this feature?

This feature is available under tools.

Step 1: Click on tools and choose the material specifier.

Step 1: Select the 'Carbon and cost optimal materials specifier'

Step 2: Insert materials to compare

Step 2: Insert materials you want to compare

If you do not have a Life Cycle costing tool on your license, you will be asked to set the LCC parameters. The 'financial and social cost' value is taken from the value set on the company account page. 

After choosing the materials you can view their emissions on the results page, and use the 'details' tab to further analyze their emissions.

Is this feature available to me?

The material specifier is included in all Expert package licenses.

• Related Articles

• Carbon reduction webinar and articles

  Webinar on Reducing whole building carbon emissions Check out our webinar on '10 ways to reduce Whole Building carbon emissions' here. How to cut the embodied carbon of your building design In this article, we talk about the 10 design commandments ...

• Carbon Heroes Benchmarks

  What does this feature do?The Carbon Heroes Benchmark gives you an unique benchmark analysis from over a thousand buildings which have used One Click LCA to record their life cycle analysis. How do you use this feature? Preconditions: The project ...

• Carbon Designer

  View our Carbon Designer webinar here.  What does this feature do? The Carbon Designer tool allows very quick baseline building creation with minimal knowledge about the project and allows optioneering choices and their impacts easily. The Carbon ...

• Moving materials between sections

  What does this feature do? You might want to assign a different sub-section to your materials if you e.g. have uploaded the materials with a wrong classification. You can do this easily with the 'Move materials between sections' feature.   How do you ...

• Biogenic carbon

  What is a biogenic carbon? Biogenic carbon is the carbon that is stored in biological materials, such as plants or soil. Carbon accumulates in plants through the process of photosynthesis and therefore bio-based products can contribute to reduce the ...