Life Cycle Assessment and Circularity for Sustainable Buildings
We measure the environmental impacts of your project throughout its entire lifecycle to reduce carbon footprint, optimise materials, and apply circular economy strategies aligned with Level(s) and the European Taxonomy.
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Understanding the real impact of buildings to design with less carbon and more circularity
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows for the assessment of a building's environmental impact from the extraction and manufacture of materials through to construction, use, maintenance, replacements, and end-of-life. This methodology provides an objective basis for comparing solutions, reducing emissions, and making design decisions with greater technical rigor.
The LCA is particularly relevant because the environmental impact of a building is not limited to its use phase. A significant part can be associated with materials, construction processes, replacements, and the final management of components. Therefore, measuring the complete life cycle allows action to be taken before design decisions become irreversible.
Furthermore, this approach aligns with regulatory evolution and European sustainability frameworks. Gesvalt's reference highlights the progressive incorporation of the indicator GWP —Global Warming Potential— of the building throughout its life cycle within the framework of the CTE, with requirements foreseen from 2028 for buildings over 1,000 m² and from 2030 for all new buildings.
Why Evalore?
- We are a Specialist sustainability consulting applied to real estate.
- We have worked on offices, housing, hotels, educational centres, retail premises and industrial assets.
- We manage LEED, BREEAM, WELL, SITES and Passivhaus certifications with a technical, economic, and commercial focus.
- Our methodology has helped to achieve over €500,000 saved on investment costs in a large-scale BREEAM project.
- We increase the value of your assets through sustainability.
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Reduce emissions, optimise materials, and make data-driven decisions
LCA allows comparison of design and material alternatives with a complete view of environmental impact. This information is key for developers, owners, investors, and project teams who need to justify decisions, improve the sustainable performance of the asset, and move towards lower-carbon construction.
Applied from the early stages, life cycle analysis helps to prioritise solutions with the greatest potential for impact reduction. In rehabilitation projects or operational assets, it enables the identification of improvement opportunities and the definition of strategies to reduce emissions, optimise resources, and prepare the building for future sustainability demands.
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We support national and international clients on projects where sustainability is a key consideration real value for the asset, users and investment.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Life Cycle Assessment and Circularity
1. What is the Life Cycle Assessment of a building?
The LCA assesses the environmental impacts of a building throughout its lifespan: raw material extraction, manufacturing, transport, construction, use, maintenance, replacements, demolition, and end-of-life. It uses this to make data-driven design and material decisions.
What is the difference between LCA and carbon footprint?
The carbon footprint focuses on greenhouse gas emissions. LCA can analyse a broader set of environmental impacts, such as resource consumption, acidification, eutrophication, resource depletion, or waste generation. In building, it allows us to understand where the impacts lie and how to reduce them efficiently.
3. What is embodied carbon?
It is the carbon associated with construction materials and processes: extraction, manufacturing, transport, construction, maintenance, replacement, and end-of-life. Its impact is increasingly relevant because buildings are becoming more efficient in operation, but they continue to incorporate a significant impact in materials and construction.
4. When is it advisable to have an ACV?
The sooner, the better. In the initial stages, it allows for the comparison of structural systems, envelopes, materials, and construction solutions before decisions are finalised. In advanced stages, it can be used to justify certifications, reporting, the European Taxonomy, or carbon reduction strategies.
Does the ACV help to reduce costs?
It can contribute to this if used as a decision-making tool. A good LCA is not about automatically choosing the material with the lowest impact, but about comparing environmental impact, cost, availability, durability, maintenance, and end-of-life. Evaluate it from a cost-benefit logic.
6. What is the relationship between LCA and LEED, BREEAM, Level(s), and the EU Taxonomy?
ACV is increasingly prevalent in European certifications, reporting, and regulatory frameworks. It can help justify credits in LEED or BREEAM, align with Level(s), prepare information for the European Taxonomy, and anticipate future life-cycle carbon requirements.
Circular building means a building designed, constructed, and operated in a way that minimises waste and maximises the use of resources. It involves using materials that can be reused, repaired, or recycled, and designing buildings that can be deconstructed and repurposed at the end of their life.
Circularity aims to make better use of resources throughout the building's lifecycle: less waste generation, materials with lower impact, greater durability, adaptability, disassembly, reuse, and traceability. At Evalore, it is addressed as a technical and economic strategy to reduce the risk of obsolescence and increase future value.
8. What deliverables does the client receive?
The client can receive a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model, comparison of alternatives, identification of key impact areas, reduction recommendations, material criteria, carbon indicators, and useful documentation for certifications, ESG reporting, the EU Taxonomy, or communication with investors and customers.
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Measure the real impact of your building and turn it into a competitive advantage
Tell us about the features of your project, and we will analyse how it Life Cycle Analysis and the circularity strategy can help you reduce embodied carbon, optimise materials, anticipate ESG demands and align the asset with Levels, European Taxonomy and environmental certifications.