BCIS’s Life Cycle Evaluator can be used to produce fully compliant whole life carbon assessments.
The tool enables users to understand the combined cost and carbon impact of projects and see where improvements can be made.
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LoginQuantity surveyors are crucial to the UK’s transition to low-carbon construction. The profession already has the expertise to balance cost, risk and value – now it’s about applying that same skillset to incorporate carbon into calculations.
We know the prospect of carrying out whole life carbon assessments can feel daunting. The process is new for many, best practice has been evolving over several years, and client or funder buy-in isn’t always guaranteed, or even available at all.
That’s why we’ve created this toolkit, which we’ll add to over the coming months, to help cost professionals take the lead in this developing space. From taking the first steps to integrate carbon measurement into everyday workflows, to having more productive conversations with clients and funders, we want to make it easier for cost professionals to demonstrate the value of aligning cost and carbon data – and to show how this joined-up approach can drive better decisions and stronger project outcomes.
As part of our commitment to helping cost professionals lead in this space, we’ve opened up access to our cost and carbon measuring and reporting tool, BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator, for all our BCIS CapX, BCIS OpX and BCIS TotX subscribers. In this way, we aim to simplify processes for the industry, while ensuring costs and carbon can be measured, compared, reported (and, particularly in the case of carbon, reduced) with the same consistency, transparency and confidence.
To learn more about our subscription packages and access BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator, take a look at our packages here.
An introduction to measuring and reporting carbon alongside costs, using familiar estimating methods, life cycle stages and data sources. It introduces the four essentials for credible assessments – skilled professionals, a consistent methodology, reliable data, and compliant tools – and outlines how resources like the Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD) and BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator make integration achievable.
Access herePractical tips to frame carbon alongside cost from the earliest stages of a project. It outlines how to raise the subject with key stakeholders, build confidence in the process, and show how assessments help to frame carbon as a controllable, quantifiable variable, manage risk and future proof projects for future regulation and ESG expectations.
Access hereDesigned for cost professionals to share with clients and funders, or to support those conversations, this crib sheet explains the benefits that come from using BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator to integrate carbon measurement into cost workflows. It sets out how the tool enables project teams to measure, compare and report on both cost and carbon with consistency and confidence – supporting transparency, accountability and measurable reduction.
Whether project teams already use BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator or are considering it, this crib sheet provides a clear, credible basis for demonstrating its value and encouraging adoption.
Access hereAs we develop this toolkit, we’d love your input. What would be most helpful as you start integrating carbon assessments into your everyday workflows? Let us know here!
BCIS’s Life Cycle Evaluator can be used to produce fully compliant whole life carbon assessments.
The tool enables users to understand the combined cost and carbon impact of projects and see where improvements can be made.
