carbolifecalc
A Quick-Action Carbon Whole Life Carbon Assessment calculator using Revit material quantities.
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A Quick-Action Carbon Whole Life Carbon Assessment calculator using Revit material quantities.
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- Stars: 32
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 7
- Open Issues: 1
- Releases: 18
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CarboLifeCalc
CarboLifeCalc is a free and open-source embodied carbon calculator for the built environment. It transforms material quantities into meaningful carbon metrics using environmental product declarations (EPDs) and other carbon data sources—giving you near-instant feedback on the environmental impact of your design.
Key Features
- Calculates embodied carbon from material quantities
- Supports data from EPDs and carbon databases
- Works with Autodesk Revit
- Compatible with Rhino Grasshopper
- Visualizes carbon footprint with charts and heatmaps
- Exports results in CSV and JSON formats (Raw date, OneClickLCA, ItructE 3.0 or LCAx)
- Open-source and community-driven
- Works as a stand alone application
- Works within the Revit Viewer, thus a revit Licence is not required for the data extraction
How It Works (3 Steps)
1. Connect Your Design
- Link your project from Autodesk Revit or Rhino Grasshopper.
- Automatically extract material quantities from your building model.
2. Map Materials to Carbon Data
- Match materials to embodied carbon values using EPDs or built-in databases.
- Customize or import your own datasets as needed.
3. Analyze and Export Results
- View real-time visual feedback including charts, summaries, and color-coded heatmaps.
- Export your results for reporting or further analysis.
Why Use CarboLifeCalc?
- Raise awareness of embodied carbon in design decisions.
- Support sustainable building practices.
- Integrate seamlessly into your existing design workflow.
- Access a powerful tool without licensing fees.
Get Started
- Download the latest release from the Releases page.
- Follow the setup instructions in the Wiki.
- Start analyzing your models in Revit or Grasshopper.
Support the Project
If you find CarboLife helpful, consider supporting its development by buying me a coffee:
Your support helps keep the project alive and evolving!
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
For Revit Version 2024 and below please visit:
https://github.com/DavidVeld/CarboLifeCalc---FrameWork
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Owner
- Login: DavidVeld
- Kind: user
- Location: London
- Website: www.davidveld.nl
- Repositories: 1
- Profile: https://github.com/DavidVeld
GitHub Events
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- Create event: 4
- Issues event: 3
- Release event: 4
- Watch event: 7
- Issue comment event: 3
- Push event: 47
- Gollum event: 1
Last Year
- Create event: 4
- Issues event: 3
- Release event: 4
- Watch event: 7
- Issue comment event: 3
- Push event: 47
- Gollum event: 1
Committers
Last synced: 11 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| David In't veld | d****d@g****m | 242 |
| David Veld | d****d@w****m | 79 |
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Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 11 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 5
- Total pull requests: 2
- Average time to close issues: 11 months
- Average time to close pull requests: less than a minute
- Total issue authors: 5
- Total pull request authors: 1
- Average comments per issue: 1.4
- Average comments per pull request: 0.0
- Merged pull requests: 2
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 1
- Pull requests: 0
- Average time to close issues: about 6 hours
- Average time to close pull requests: N/A
- Issue authors: 1
- Pull request authors: 0
- Average comments per issue: 2.0
- Average comments per pull request: 0
- Merged pull requests: 0
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- ErwinMeulman (1)
- chriskearns (1)
- JaimeCordero (1)
- whysosocold (1)
- DuncanLithgow (1)
- iamcosmonaut (1)
Pull Request Authors
- DavidVeld (4)
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Dependencies
- WPFToolkit 3.5.50211.1
- WPFToolkit.DataVisualization 3.5.50211.1
- LiveCharts 0.9.7
- LiveCharts.Wpf 0.9.7