London, September 2024 – Qflow, a top digital platform in construction sustainability, is proud to announce a collaboration with One Click LCA, the world’s leading sustainability, life-cycle assessment (LCA), and carbon management software provider for the construction industry. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in empowering construction professionals to track, measure, and manage whole-life carbon (WLC) from the earliest stages of construction through to practical completion.
Unlocking the potential of whole-life carbon management
The construction industry faces growing pressure to reduce its environmental impact, with increasing emphasis on minimising carbon emissions throughout the entire lifecycle of a project. Whole-life carbon encompasses all emissions from the construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual deconstruction of a building. While many tools and methodologies exist for estimating and managing carbon at various stages of a building’s lifecycle, capturing data to verify the as-built stage during construction has remained a challenge — until now.
Through this collaboration, Qflow and One Click LCA combine their expertise to offer a seamless solution that integrates real-time data collection and analytics with comprehensive LCA. Qflow’s platform, which automatically captures and categorises material and waste data from construction sites, is now compatible with One Click LCA’s robust LCA software. This collaboration gives project teams unprecedented access to real-time carbon data and insights, ensuring that every decision made on site contributes to achieving net-zero carbon goals.
Driving decarbonisation and innovation in construction
By integrating Qflow’s innovative data collection capabilities with One Click LCA’s leading carbon management software, this collaboration will enable construction projects to:
Capture construction data: Through Qflow, gain access to accurate construction material and waste data, as well as transport emissions and fuel use, providing a clear view of the activity and quantities data throughout the construction process.
Ensure accurate carbon reporting: Sync data from Qflow to One Click LCA, where the activity and quantities data is transformed into carbon emissions to support LCA, streamlining the process of compiling comprehensive carbon reports that meet global sustainability standards.
Support informed decision-making: Explore how as-built data differs from initial designs, guiding sustainable decisions at every stage of construction, from material selection to construction practices.
Leadership perspectives
Brittany Harris, CEO and Co-Founder of Qflow: “Our collaboration with One Click LCA makes assessing whole-life carbon from design to practical completion straightforward and easy. From calculating whole-life carbon at design, through tracking carbon during construction, to re-calculating whole-life carbon at completion, this ensures the industry has accurate, complete data on its impact and opportunities to improve. This is a major step towards our vision of a construction industry that serves society today, without compromising future generations.”
Daniel Da Silva, Head of Global Partnerships at One Click LCA: “At One Click LCA, we are excited to collaborate with Qflow to deliver a streamlined solution that addresses the urgent need for accurate and actionable carbon data in construction. Our partnership is about making whole-life carbon management more accessible, transparent, and effective, helping the industry accelerate its journey towards net zero.”
About Qflow
Qflow is a pioneering AI-powered data platform designed to make achieving sustainable outcomes during construction easy. By automating the collection and analysis of material and waste data on-site, Qflow enables construction teams to make informed decisions that reduce waste, cut costs, and minimise carbon emissions. By integrating with leading construction tools, Qflow further streamlines the process for construction teams, ensuring the right data is in the right hands, at the right time, and working with leading contractors and developers like Bouygues, Berkeley Group, Grosvenor, and Scottish Power. Founded in London, England, in 2018, with a team of 50 across the US and UK, Qflow is on a mission to create a construction industry that is efficient, transparent, and leaves the world in a better place.
About One Click LCA
One Click LCA is the world-leading end-to-end sustainability platform for construction and manufacturing. The AI-powered software decarbonises and drives sustainability across the construction value chain with scientific, easy-to-use, automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs) to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects and products. The platform also allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle cost, and biodiversity. One Click LCA is used in over 170 countries, including by blue-chip enterprises like Skanska, WSP, Foster+Partners, LafargeHolcim, ArcelorMittal, Arcadis, ARUP, Geberit, and Saint-Gobain, among others. It offers a unique global database with over 250,000 LCA datasets, supports over 80 standards and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB, and other national regulations, and seamlessly integrates with over 20 of the most widely used BIM software tools, including Autodesk Revit®, Tekla Structures®, and Bentley iTwin®. One Click LCA was founded in Helsinki, Finland, in 2001, with a team of over 200 people across all continents. Learn more at: www.oneclicklca.com.
