BCIS Life Cycle Evaluator

Life Cycle Evaluator (LCE) is a compliant whole life cost and carbon solution available for the UK Built Environment, powered by trusted cost data from BCIS and official carbon data from Built Environment Carbon Database (BECD).

In development for over 15 years, Life Cycle Evaluator is designed to generate fully compliant capital cost, life cycle cost and whole life carbon assessments for your project at the same time.

Helping you at the design, construction, operation and end of life phases

Giving full auditability of the data and any assumptions made, you can evidence compliance to the standards by using an official library of cost and carbon data.

LCE will save you valuable time, helping you to increase your profitability and help differentiate your service from others.

How LCE can help you

• Compliance with industry standards

  LCE is compliant with the latest RICS standards. This compliance ensures that you can demonstrate compliance for your audits and regulatory activities.

• Streamline your reporting

  It simplifies the process of producing cost and carbon compliant reports for all stages of a building’s life cycle, saving time and effort.

• Provides reliable and accurate data

  LCE is powered by the only official cost and carbon data source from BCIS and BECD.

• Provide a comprehensive assessment

  It will help you to assess and compare the cost and sustainability performance of different materials, construction methods, operational choices, and end-of-life scenarios throughout the entire life cycle of a building project.

• Improve your efficiency and profitability

  If you deliver cost and carbon services on a project using LCE, you will save circa 30-50% of your time by doing both tasks together, increasing profitability by giving additional fee earning capability. You won’t need to spend money on different/multiple cost or carbon software packages.

• Decision support for cost and sustainability

  Our comprehensive view of both cost and carbon emissions, enables you to make better-informed choices that balance financial considerations with sustainability goals. This integrated approach helps you address the growing importance of carbon emissions as a critical consideration alongside cost impact.

• Differentiate your service from others

  If you deliver cost services, you can now produce carbon assessments at the same time using LCE. You can add value to your service from others and associated PR.

What you can do with LCE

• Create your own projects
• Create assessments in accordance with NRM1, NRM3 and WLCA
• Copy existing projects to change or help compare design options
• Change materials and identify the whole life cost and carbon impacts
• Access a fully compliant library of data from BCIS and BECD
• Add your own data and reuse it in future projects
• Choose to update your project with new data releases from BCIS
• And much more…

Cost and Carbon Materials Database – part of LCE

The cost of materials – a database of more than 9,200 (and growing) common building, civil engineering, and specialist engineering material resources with UK-average merchant price levels.

The effects of inflation (past and forecast) on the cost of those materials.

Detailed carbon credentials for a representative material, where available, including converted carbon values in line with the RICS whole life carbon assessment standard, weight and manufacturer details.