What Is A Design?
A design is a variation of your project. One Click LCA calculates results for each design and you can create an unlimited number of designs for every (licensed) project. This enables you to compare multiple options and to find the most optimal solution regarding LCA or LCC impacts of your building, infrastructure project, or product.
Creating A First Design
Open your project and click 'Get started' button
In the popup window, you can choose the calculation tool you wish to work with (you can choose multiple tools).
As the last step, give a name to your design and choose the construction stage:
The construction stage selection does not impact your calculations. It allows you to differentiate different stages of the design, allowing you to see the improvements from early design to construction and in-use stages, which are created across the whole project.
After creating the design, you will be asked to set your Calculation Parameters. You can fill these in immediately or choose the default option, and come back to these later (which will subsequently update all designs in the project if changes are made).
Modifying, Copying, Deleting and Locking a Design
Every design can be modified, copied, deleted, or locked. You can do those actions by clicking on the design name:
Modify: Enables changing the project name and construction stage and selecting which tools are enabled for this design (e.g. when disabling a tool, then data cannot be included for it)
Add new note: Enables to add a note that can help distinguish a design or note important info about it
Copy: Copies the design. Copying a design is the most efficient way to compare alternative options. In the copy, you can make the modifications and then compare the original design with the copy
Delete: Deletes the design, which can not be recovered. Consider hiding instead.
Lock: Locks the design so the data included in the design cannot be edited. Locking a design is recommended once the design is complete so no modifications can be made by mistake
Hide design: Removes the design from those listed on the project page, but can be 'Unhidden' via the 'Tools' button.
Creating a new design
If you do not wish to copy your design and want to create a new one from scratch, then simply click '+ Add design' button: