Building Transparency and One Click LCA Partnership Improves Access to Carbon Accounting Data, Enables Decarbonization Across Building Sector
April 16 2024 - 9:08AM
Business Wire
Carbon Experts to Share Education and Resources
Needed to Improve Communication and Data Flow
Building Transparency, a nonprofit organization that provides
open access data and tools to foster a better building future, and
One Click LCA, a world-leading construction LCA and EPD software
provider, today announce their strategic partnership focused on
providing access to the data needed to drive carbon action and
decarbonize built spaces.
Both organizations aim to provide high-value, actionable data
for users to support sustainability goals on their projects. By
partnering, Building Transparency and One Click LCA are able to
improve the flow of environmental data and create a robust
ecosystem of tools needed to drive carbon reductions.
“Collaboration is critical to driving real and actionable
progress toward climate goals as we work to reverse climate change
and the building sector’s impact on global warming,” said Stacy
Smedley, Executive Director of Building Transparency. “Entering
this partnership with One Click LCA is another important step in
empowering manufacturers, designers, architecture firms, and more
to reduce embodied carbon emissions through improved and easier
communication and data flow.”
Better Data & Workflows to Drive Carbon Action
With this new partnership, Building Transparency’s Embodied
Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) and the One Click LCA
platform will be seamlessly integrated to provide access to more
and better data. Now, users of each tool will have a larger, robust
database of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). All EPDs
stored in EC3 will be automatically made available in One Click
LCA, and all EPDs created and published with One Click LCA will be
available for EC3. Documents will remain confidential until
published.
In addition, this partnership will help drive adoption of
openEPD, an open data format for creating and exchanging digital
third-party verified EPDs from Building Transparency. It
establishes the incorporation of the openEPD format into One Click
LCA’s EPD generation program, a major milestone toward the global
standardization of carbon accounting data.
“Partnering with Building Transparency helps us provide the most
comprehensive set of environmental data for AEC professionals on a
global scale and supporting the openEPD format allows manufacturers
to publish their EPD data into the EC3 platform, thus increasing
their value,” said Panu Pasanen, CEO & Founder of One Click
LCA. “We’re delighted to be accelerating widespread decarbonization
with this partnership.”
Driving Action Through Education & Best Practice
Sharing
Building Transparency and One Click LCA aim to streamline the
resources and tools needed to drive climate action across the
building sector. They will partner to develop and make educational
content and sessions available to those interested in learning more
about embodied carbon, EC3 and One Click LCA’s platform, and next
steps for accessing data needed to decarbonize built spaces.
The two organizations will co-host a live webinar on Thursday,
April 18, to kick off their partnership and knowledge-sharing
efforts. The webinar, titled ‘Riding today’s tidal wave of AEC
sustainability data,’ will feature Panu Pasanen and Stacy Smedley.
The carbon experts will talk about the vast amount of
sustainability data available to AEC professionals today, how this
information can help take actionable steps toward decarbonization,
and the tools available to help.
For those interested in attending the live webinar, please see
the following link:
https://oneclicklca.com/webinars/tackling-the-tidal-wave-of-sustainability-data.
About Building Transparency
Building Transparency is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that
provides open-access data and tools that support broad and swift
action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon’s
role in climate change. Formed in 2020, Building Transparency hosts
manages and maintains the Embodied Carbon in Construction
Calculator (EC3) tool, which provides thousands of digitized EPDs
in a free, open-source database, and tallyLCA, the nonprofit’s life
cycle assessment tool. Building Transparency strives to provide the
resources and education necessary to shape a better building future
through promoting the adoption of the EC3 tool and tallyLCA,
establishing the official materialsCAN and ownersCAN program, and
working with global policymakers.
About One Click LCA
One Click LCA is a Helsinki-based tech company decarbonizing
construction and manufacturing with world-leading, easy-to-use, and
automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) to calculate and reduce the
environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation
projects — as well as construction and other manufactured products.
It also enables manufacturers to generate and publish third-party
verified EPDs, and allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle
cost, and soon also biodiversity. One Click LCA is used in +170
countries. Its decarbonization platform includes a unique global
database with +200,000 LCA datasets, and it supports +80 standards
and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB and other
national regulations. One Click LCA was founded in Finland in 2001
and has a team of +180 people on all continents. Learn more at:
www.oneclicklca.com.
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