Environmental issues have been a trending topic for some time now due to constant changes. One of the most contributing industries is the construction sector. In Malmo, the construction industry is responsible for 20% of the total climate impact in the city. The first regional roadmap has been initiated in Malmo, which is called LFM30. Their focus is to increase the perspective of life cycle assessment (LCA), where different methods and materials are reviewed.

The purpose of this degree project was to analyze and compare these to tools from different criteria, such as required knowledge, user-friendly, comparison-options, results and applicability in the early stages. These criteria have been analyzed in a case study, where a specific case has been examined. Climate impact has been calculated with BM and One Click LCA. The study was limited to Malmo and the initiative LFM30 and its affiliated companies.

The case study shows that there’s good opportunity to develop this further, but to reach climate neutrality and climate positivity soon, it’s required that climate calculations are implemented as early as possible. The comparison between the two programs showed that BM is more limited function-wise but works more accurate and user-friendly than One Click LCA.