Training - Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is defined as the systematic analysis of the potential environmental impacts of products or services throughout their entire life cycle.
In green buildings in general and projects pursuing LEED certification in particular, LCA plays an extremely important role. For manufacturers, LCA is the basis for establishing an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), helping to confirm transparency and assess the product’s impact on the environment in accordance with the international standards. For parties directly implementing green building projects, assessing LCA for the entire building (Whole Building LCA) for the early stages of the project not only helps score a number of green building criteria, but also helps the project team compare different alternatives to choose the one that is both beneficial to the environment, saves operating costs and avoids waste due to making many changes.
At VGBA, we provide courses from basic to advanced, with the goal of helping students master LCA knowledge in both theory and practice so that they can apply it to their own projects and products of your business.
Introduction to Embodied Carbon, Life-cycle Assessment, & Sustainable Construction
▶︎ Format: E-Learning
▶︎ Level: Basic
▶︎ Duration: Updating
The background of LCA, standards, data, and means of practical emissions steering; demonstration of the basic functionalities of One Click LCA software.
How to Achieve Whole Building LCA and EPD credits for LEED
▶︎ Format: E-Learning
▶︎ Level: Advanced
▶︎ Duration: Updating
Understand the importance of reducing embodied carbon in buildings, requirements and how to perform LCA for WBLCA and EPD criteria in LEED v4.1.
One Click LCA Integration for Autodesk Revit
▶︎ Format: E-Learning
▶︎ Level: Advanced
▶︎ Duration: Updating
Participants learn how to integrate One Click LCA with Autodesk Revit, how to overcome some difficulties during BIM/LCA implementation and optimize construction design.
One Click LCA for Rhino & Grasshopper
▶︎ Format: E-Learning
▶︎ Level: Advanced
▶︎ Duration: Updating
Participants learn how to integrate LCA capabilities directly into the Rhino/Grasshopper environment. Streamline workflows without moving data between platforms.
One Click LCA Construction LCA Bootcamp
▶︎ Format: Online
▶︎ Level: Advanced
▶︎ Duration: Updating
Training LCA for construction projects, LCA database and software operations to measure environmental impacts.
One Click LCA EPD Bootcamp
▶︎ Format: Online
▶︎ Level: Basic
▶︎ Duration: Updating
The course goes into detail on how to perform LCA using One Click LCA, with the goal of serving as a basis for environmental product declaration (EPD).