Recycled Content By Value (%)

The London Plan Policy for Circular economy assessments requires that we calculate the % of recycled content by value for the development in question. Its a relatively straight forward calculation, is this something that can be added as a generatable report?

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QOL – Filter “Add template” form search results by unit type

Apologies if this has been suggested before – Within the “Add template” form which appears when adding a template to a design, if an additional optional search box could be added below the “Search Template Name” input box, that could be used to additionally filter search results by the “unit description” (m, t, m3 etc.), […]

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Updated EPD functionality for accounting for construction waste

Construction waste needs to be accounted for under EN15978, but most EPDs don’t account for construction waste impacts either in additional material in modules A1-A3, or in disposal of construction waste in A5. However, some do. We need a way of quickly identifying which EPDs are accounting for construction waste, and a software solution for […]

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Flexible End of Life Selections

New LCA standards such as the RICS WLC standard will require mixed end of life scenarios, beyond what is currently possible in eTool. Green Star Buildings is another example. Under these standards and schemes materials will need to be modelled with varying proportions of end of life waste allocated to reuse, recycling, disposal in landfill, […]

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