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25 ArticlesGetting Started →

  • How Does eTool Define Building Areas?
  • Primary & Supporting Functions
  • Design Purpose
  • Documentation Requirements
  • eToolLCD: Compliance with International Standards
  • Conducting a Target Setting Study
  • New Login Verification
  • How to Edit Template Quantities
  • Preparing for an LCA
  • The Five Minute LCA
  • eToolLCD workflow
  • Data Collection and Entry
  • Choosing Your System Boundary and Scope
  • Software Introduction – Getting Started with the basics
  • Example Projects

46 ArticlesDetailed eToolLCD Modelling →

  • Scope 1, 2 & 3 Emission Figures
  • Modeling Custom Concrete Mixes
  • Diverting Construction Waste from Landfill
  • Using Equations in Templates
  • People & Equipment List – Transport Mode & Distances
  • Separate Reporting for Biogenic Carbon
  • Aggregate project data prior to importing into eToolLCD
  • Materials Efficiency Metric
  • Infrastructure LCA modelling in eToolLCD – Wind farm example
  • Certify Your Design
  • Functions: bulk import and reporting
  • Revit integration – detailed explanation
  • Grid Decarbonisation Scenarios
  • Bulk Swap
  • Lighting Occupancy Sensors

23 ArticlesAdvanced Features →

  • eToolLCD API
  • Modeling Custom Concrete Mixes
  • HS2 LCA modelling and reporting
  • Scale Costs
  • Organisation Template Ownership – Template Sharing
  • Diverting Construction Waste from Landfill
  • Using Equations in Templates
  • Perth Metronet LCA Modelling and Reporting
  • Aggregate project data prior to importing into eToolLCD
  • Materials Efficiency Metric
  • Functions: bulk import and reporting
  • Revit integration – detailed explanation
  • Modelling Design Scenarios – branching design improvement strategies
  • Grid Decarbonisation Scenarios
  • Bulk Swap

10 ArticlesImprovement Strategies →

  • Diverting Construction Waste from Landfill
  • Modelling Design Scenarios – branching design improvement strategies
  • Bulk Swap
  • Reducing Embodied carbon: a detailed look at our recommendations library
  • Recommendations: Materials Related Strategies and reducing Embodied Carbon
  • Recommendations: Operational Energy Strategies
  • Guide to selecting concrete variants in the BRE IMPACT dataset
  • Recommendations: Energy Generation Strategies
  • Guide to Recommendations: Modeling Recommendations from the Library
  • Hot Tips On How to Improve the Environmental Impact of Your Home (Australia)

8 ArticlesBenchmarks →

  • Conducting a Target Setting Study
  • Construction Environmental Impact Accounting and Reporting
  • Example Projects
  • Occupancy Rates
  • eTool International Commercial Office Benchmark (Methodology Summary)
  • Benchmarking Philosophy
  • eTool International Residential Benchmark (Methodology Summary)
  • eTool Residential Benchmark For Australia

12 ArticlesRating Schemes →

  • BREEAM 2018 Reporting from eToolLCD – Options Appraisal Using ‘Scenarios’ Feature
  • New Green Star Buildings rating system
  • Using eToolLCD for ISCA RSO-6 Credit and Environmental Modelling of Infrastructure Projects
  • New London Plan – Whole Life Carbon Guidance
  • Rating Schemes
  • BREEAM 2018 – Core Building Services credit available in eToolLCD
  • eTool Guidance Note for City of Vincent LCAs
  • Choosing Your System Boundary and Scope
  • Construction Environmental Impact Accounting and Reporting
  • How to Reduce ADP/ODP Increase in Large PV Systems
  • Additional Reporting for Green Star
  • Human toxicity potential

12 ArticlesNew Features →

  • Specialist Hotseat & Specialist External Seat: How Do They Work?
  • Grid Decarbonisation Scenarios
  • eToolLCD Analysis Tab – create custom tables, graphs and pie charts
  • New Login Verification
  • Revit Plugin
  • Set your organisation up in eToolLCD – Enterprise Functionality
  • eTool LCA Software Updates – Autumn 2014
  • eTool LCA Software Updates – Summer 2014
  • eTool LCA Software Updates – Spring 2013
  • eTool LCA Software Updates – Autumn 2013
  • eTool V2 Part 1 Complete
  • eTool Again Leading Building LCA Software

22 ArticlesLCA Articles →

  • References for Default Recycled Content in Steel Products
  • BREEAM 2018 Reporting from eToolLCD – Options Appraisal Using ‘Scenarios’ Feature
  • Scope 1, 2 & 3 Emission Figures
  • How Does eTool Define Building Areas?
  • Primary & Supporting Functions
  • Using eToolLCD for ISCA RSO-6 Credit and Environmental Modelling of Infrastructure Projects
  • Advantages of using EcoInvent in comparison with ICE database and EPD
  • Witchcliffe Ecovillage – RapidLCA Guidance
  • Rating Schemes
  • Design Purpose
  • Certify Your Design
  • eToolLCD: Compliance with International Standards
  • eToolLCD Default LCI Regionalisation Methodology
  • Choosing Your System Boundary and Scope
  • eToolLCD and RICS Whole of Life Carbon Assessment for the built environment

2 ArticlesLCC →

  • Scale Costs
  • Life Cycle Cost LCC and ISO156865 Reporting

5 ArticlesAdmin →

  • Staff Turnover: Handover Procedure for Organisations
  • eToolLCD API
  • Organisation Template Ownership – Template Sharing
  • New Login Verification
  • Set your organisation up in eToolLCD – Enterprise Functionality

1 ArticlesBilling →

  • Set your organisation up in eToolLCD – Enterprise Functionality
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