Verdantix recognizes One Click LCA as a leading LCA software provider

Verdantix, a leading independent research and advisory firm specializing in sustainability, real estate, and built environment technologies, has recognized One Click LCA as one of the top providers in Smart Innovators: LCA Software (2025). This report benchmarks 13 life cycle assessment (LCA) software tools across relevant capability areas like data collection, environmental impact calculation, and performance analysis and reporting.

The findings reflect growing demand for product-level environmental data, and links LCA software adoption to regulatory drivers such as the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), rising requirements for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and to competitive advantages from product-specific data.

What Verdantix found out: LCA software is becoming enterprise infrastructure

The research by Verdantix supports the need for construction product manufacturers and AEC professionals to adopt LCA at an industrial level. No longer a specialist-only field, environmental analysis must scale across entire product portfolios, integrate with enterprise systems, and support audit-ready outputs.

Software-driven automation allows the construction value chain to streamline LCA and environmental product declaration (EPD) processes, reducing manual work and saving time and cost. Verdantix identifies three capability pillars that define modern LCA software:

• Data collection and management — prioritizing integration with existing industrial systems, quality controls, and supplier reach
• Environmental impact assessment, calculation and modelling
  
• Performance analysis and reporting — scenario modelling, early design implementation and carbon hotspot identification are key capabilities to address commercial challenges

The report also highlights growing investment in AI-driven data mapping and modelling to reduce manual workload and improve consistency across complex supply chains.

Why One Click LCA leads in data capabilities

In Verdantix’s LCA software assessment, One Click LCA is the strongest option for data functionalities, as the only provider to receive the maximum rating in both data quality control and validation, and external data integration and exchange. This rating is based on providing market-leading functionalities, with differentiated offering.

One Click LCA platform’s capabilities include:

• Automated LCA and EPD generation, helping manufacturers and construction professionals meet sustainability certification and regulatory requirements efficiently.
• Integration with major BIM and design tools, including Autodesk Revit®, Tekla Structures®, and Bentley iTwin®, allowing seamless data exchange.
• Extensive training and support through its global training academy, ensuring LCA knowledge development across the industry.

Why integration and validation matter for EPD scaling

Construction product portfolios often contain thousands of SKUs, variants, and region-specific adaptations. Scaling life cycle assessment across such portfolios requires two foundations:

1. External data integration and exchange
Product sustainability data must connect with ERP, PLM, supplier systems, and external LCA databases. Automated and AI-assisted data mapping can turn slow manual imports into almost instant uploads. Without structured integration, teams have limited workflows and error risk increases.

2. Data quality control and validation
High-volume modelling requires standardized data mapping, automated checks, and traceability before impact calculations.  Research from Victoria University of Wellington highlights the importance placed by experts on ensuring robust data quality, particularly in the creation of EPDs. System-level validation allows reliable comparisons across entire portfolios.

How LCA software supports compliance and commercial use 

Verdantix’s report identifies the following reasons why firms are investing in LCA software:

• Comply with evolving regulation
• Respond to customer and tender requirements
• Incorporate sustainability criteria into design and innovation

As one example of early implementation to improve products and differentiate the offer, the report covers how Stubbe’s Precast leveraged One Click LCA to model carbon reduction and achieved a decrease of over 14% in carbon emissions per tonne of precast concrete between 2021 and 2024, keeping emissions below the Canadian industry average.

How the construction industry can leverage this report

Verdantix’s Smart Innovators: LCA Software (2025) confirms that LCA software is becoming essential for managing product sustainability at scale. Rising regulatory pressure and growing demand for verified product data are pushing firms to move beyond manual assessments toward automated, portfolio-wide workflows.

The report highlights increasing vendor investment in:

• Automation that enables higher-volume, repeatable LCAs
• AI-driven data mapping and modelling to reduce manual effort
• Integrated workflows that reduce siloed data handling
• Supplier engagement tools to improve primary data quality

This benchmark offers a comprehensive guide of the capabilities and coverage offered by the LCA top providers.  It can help construction product manufacturers evaluate which software to choose for their key needs:

• Scalable EPD production
• Improve consistency and validation of product data
  
• Integrate with enterprise systems such as ERP and PLM
  
• Generate defensible, audit-ready sustainability claims
  
• Enable scenario modelling for product design and improvement
  

The report provides detailed insights on the leading LCA software options. More information is available via Verdantix’s official report page (note that a Verdantix subscription is required to access the full report).