Carbon assessments are landing on more desks this year than ever. Architects want embodied carbon numbers before a design is finalized. Manufacturers need Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) out the door faster. Consultants are asked to deliver more life cycle assessments (LCAs) with the same headcount.
Regulation is adding to that pressure. The revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive requires new buildings to move toward whole life carbon reporting, with EU member states transposing the rules into national law by May 29, 2026. The updated Construction Products Regulation, in force since January 2025, and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, add Digital Product Passport and carbon-declaration obligations for construction product categories and beyond.
None of this data disclosure will be optional soon. And yet, for many teams, the actual work of producing an LCA or an EPD still starts with something far less strategic: a slow process of requesting supplier data, cleaning spreadsheets, and converting PDFs by hand.
One Click LCA's latest products target exactly that gap. A set of new AI-powered features is built to remove the manual, administrative layer of carbon assessment work, so specialists can spend their time on the decisions that actually reduce emissions.
Building an LCA or an EPD rarely starts with the assessment itself. It starts weeks earlier, with requests for supplier information, spreadsheet cleanup, and file format conversion.
One Click LCA's new Supply Chain Data Collection tool moves that work out of one-off consultancy projects and into a workflow managed internally, on an ongoing basis. It supports ingesting supplier and procurement data, collecting primary data directly from suppliers, and keeping life cycle assessment and Scope 3 calculations running continuously, while monitoring data quality and coverage across an entire portfolio rather than one project at a time.
Where a bill of materials, manufacturing process data, or supplier dataset is incomplete, the new AI-assisted generic LCA dataset creation feature builds scalable, defensible LCAs, product carbon footprints, and EPDs anyway, and structures the underlying data to align with Digital Product Passport requirements as those standards are finalized. That means incomplete supplier information does not have to stall a project while a full supplier response is pending.
Getting the raw files into usable shape has its own new AI file import agent, built directly into the data input interface. It accepts materials files as they actually arrive, messy, inconsistent, or in whatever non-standard format a supplier happens to use, and turns them into a structured, ready-to-use list of materials and quantities.
The features also target friction inside the assessment process itself.
A new interactive geographical map lets you search for EPDs by location instead of relying only on filters and keywords, making it easier to source local materials and find EPDs relevant to a specific project.
For manufacturers producing EPDs with the EPD Generator, Data Quality Rating is now built into the modeling workflow rather than assigned at the final reporting stage. This surfaces data gaps and quality issues while a model is still being built, so manufacturers can fix them before a report is finalized instead of reworking a completed EPD. One Click LCA plans to automate much of this rating process next, so reviewing and approving a suggested rating replaces manual assignment.
AI-assisted report drafting pre-fills EPD descriptions from project data and modeling assumptions, and you keep control over the final wording rather than drafting every field from scratch.
Sustainable design options often lose out for a simple reason: project teams can't show their long-term financial value alongside the carbon numbers.
One Click LCA's new Life Cycle Costing solution combines financial analysis with carbon performance in one workflow, so you can compare design options on both environmental impact and total cost of ownership in the same view.
The earliest design decisions — massing, orientation, and structural system — usually have the biggest influence on a building's lifetime carbon. But most assessment tools need a detailed model before they can produce anything useful.
One Click LCA’s Sustainable Planner addresses that earlier moment. It generates and compares design scenarios from minimal project inputs, with no BIM model required. Alongside carbon estimates, it factors in wind conditions, thermal comfort, and sun exposure through integrated microclimate simulation. This way, architects, developers, and planners can compare several options quickly and reduce the risk of a later redesign.
Building Information Modelling plays a growing role in life cycle assessment, but the link between the BIM model and the carbon assessment often breaks down once quantities get exported into a spreadsheet.
One Click LCA's updated IFC Model Viewer keeps that connection visible throughout the project. You can inspect the model in 3D from inside the LCA project instead of losing the visual context, which speeds up validation and reduces manual checking of imported quantities.
As circular economy requirements grow, so does the need to document what a building is made of and where those materials go at the end of life.
Materials Passport automatically classifies materials and generates circularity documentation directly from LCA projects, capturing material origin, recycled content, and end-of-life scenarios without manual spreadsheet tracking. The first release supports DGNB material passport requirements, with more certification schemes planned.
1. Can I still start an LCA if a supplier hasn't sent their data yet?
Yes. The AI-assisted generic LCA dataset creation feature generates project-specific environmental data using verified life cycle inventories and reference models, so modeling can begin before all supplier information is in. Generated data is always labeled as such rather than presented as primary supplier data, and it is structured to align with Digital Product Passport requirements as those standards are finalized, since the final DPP data specifications have not yet been published.
2. Can I compare designs without a BIM model?
Yes. Sustainable Planner generates and compares design scenarios from minimal project inputs, with no BIM model required, and factors in wind conditions, thermal comfort, and sun exposure through integrated microclimate simulation. It is built for the earliest design decisions, such as massing, orientation, and structural system, before a detailed model exists.
3. Does AI replace the LCA practitioner?
No. The new tools handle formatting, data matching, and documentation drafting. Deciding which design option to pursue, interpreting results, and advising project teams remain the practitioner's job.
4. How do I know AI-generated data is trustworthy, and not just made up?
The AI Data Generator draws only from verified life cycle inventories and reference models, never from unverified estimates, and every value it produces stays labeled as generated rather than as primary supplier data. That label carries through the assessment, so you or an auditor can always tell provisional data from data a supplier has confirmed, and swap it out the moment primary data arrives.
5. Can I compare the cost and carbon impact of design options in one place?
Yes. The new Life Cycle Costing solution combines financial analysis with carbon performance in a single workflow, so you can compare design options on both environmental impact and total cost of ownership without switching tools.