How can calculating emissions in construction industry with One Click LCA app enhance biodiversity?
Korpi, Yolanda (2024)
2024
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Biodiversity is all around us and it supports and balances the ecosystems and therefore is vital for human survival. Construction industries have played a major part in increasing environmental emissions and decreasing biodiversity globally, they need to offer solutions for saving it. The app One Click LCA offers a possibility for assessing environmental emissions in the construction sector by conducting life cycle assessments for buildings, building products, and infrastructure. It has published two calculation tools that consider biodiversity values. This research studies the customer experience of these tools.
One Click LCA is the commissioner of this research. The theory for the research was gathered first. Information was gathered from the biodiversity tools’ users in One Click LCA app. An expert interview was arranged with the developer of the tools. Users of the tools were reached out to invite them for a meeting. No answers were received, and seven free trainings and overviews for the tools were arranged with several customers, and trial periods for the tools were set right after. After trial periods, customers were reached out again requesting meetings for feedback, but no answers were received.
The results of this research are based on collected theoretical knowledge, the expert interview with the tool developer, and the opinions and feedback of the customers given in the training and demo sessions. According to the gathered information, biodiversity is considered as an important factor in the construction industry. However, it is still new. The topic that is not mandatory to include in the assessment is easy to ignore and in an industry that is financially challenging, this can be the easiest solution. The economic values of biodiversity should be more visible. Sharing the knowledge of the benefits biodiversity offers is crucial in achieving this change. Research conclusion was confirmed after gathering information from the developer and the feedback from the customers. The industry needs time to evolve and embrace new factors, and for that, clear guidelines and regulations should be set to speed up this process.
One Click LCA is the commissioner of this research. The theory for the research was gathered first. Information was gathered from the biodiversity tools’ users in One Click LCA app. An expert interview was arranged with the developer of the tools. Users of the tools were reached out to invite them for a meeting. No answers were received, and seven free trainings and overviews for the tools were arranged with several customers, and trial periods for the tools were set right after. After trial periods, customers were reached out again requesting meetings for feedback, but no answers were received.
The results of this research are based on collected theoretical knowledge, the expert interview with the tool developer, and the opinions and feedback of the customers given in the training and demo sessions. According to the gathered information, biodiversity is considered as an important factor in the construction industry. However, it is still new. The topic that is not mandatory to include in the assessment is easy to ignore and in an industry that is financially challenging, this can be the easiest solution. The economic values of biodiversity should be more visible. Sharing the knowledge of the benefits biodiversity offers is crucial in achieving this change. Research conclusion was confirmed after gathering information from the developer and the feedback from the customers. The industry needs time to evolve and embrace new factors, and for that, clear guidelines and regulations should be set to speed up this process.