This guide concerns the 'Interior Design Carbon tool'. This tool can be purchased as an add-on to any building or infrastructure license. This carbon reduction tool is customized for interior designers and architects and includes relevant interior material data.
Life-Cycle & Results Scope
This is a tool specifically made for Interior Design, which means it has a limited building material scope (included sections are 'Vertical Structures and Façade', 'Other Structures and Materials' & 'Building Technology.)
The life-cycle stages scope includes A1-A3, A4 and A5.
The results indicators scope includes Global Warming Potential (GWP kg CO2e), Biogenic Carbon Storage (kg CO2e bio) and Social Cost of Carbon (in desired currency format).
Data Scope
The Interior Design Carbon tool allows for EN15804+A1 (CML), EN15804+A2 (PEF) and TRACI data to be used.
Assessment Scope
The tool does not have a mandatory scope of materials to be included.
Set your building area
Enter the building area in the respective question form. Specify as a minimum gross internal floor area (GIFA). This will be used to provide results per one m2, in order to make a possible comparison between different projects. You can find out more about the building area here.
Enter your construction materials
Enter your construction/building materials. Adjust their service life setting, transport setting, localization, wastage percentage (A5 emissions) and end of life process as seen fit.
You can choose to mark a material as a 'reused material' which removes A1-A3 and A5 emissions. For existing materials (e.g. re-used foundation) you can set the transportation distance to 0 to remove A4 emissions as well. Read more about that here.
You can set a custom classification or use private classifications if you have an Expert license.
Analyzing the results
The 'Life-Cycle Carbon Global' tool reports on
Global Warming (GWP, kg CO2e)
Biogenic Carbon Storage (kg CO2e bio)
Social cost of carbon (in desired currency format).
Under 'More actions' you can get a results report in Excel format.