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Real-Time LCA implements the Finnish Climate Declaration for buildings, the assessment method published by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. Two ruleset variants are exposed — Climate Declaration 2026–2028 for the initial implementation period and Climate Declaration 2029 for the subsequent ruleset. Both variants currently share the same module set, reference study period, and indicator; they are kept as separate calculation types so that projects locked to a specific assessment year cannot be inadvertently re-calculated against a different ruleset.

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Climate Declaration 2026–2028

  • Reference study period: 50 years.
  • Indicator: Global Warming Potential (GWP), kg CO₂-eq per m² GFA per year.
  • Threshold: none defined in Real-Time LCA at this time. The Finnish authorities are expected to introduce limit values during the ruleset’s effective period; this page will be updated when those are implemented in the platform.

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Climate Declaration 2029

The 2029 ruleset uses the same module set as the 2026–2028 ruleset and is exposed as a separate calculation type to ring-fence projects submitted under different effective dates.
  • Reference study period: 50 years.
  • Indicator: Global Warming Potential (GWP), kg CO₂-eq per m² GFA per year.
  • Threshold: none defined yet.

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Building Component Inventory and Talo 2000

For projects imported from BIM models structured per the Finnish Talo 2000 classification, Real-Time LCA’s IFC ingestion uses the Talo 2000 class as one of the classification options available during material mapping. See IFC file upload for how classification systems are picked up at import time.

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Custom and Level(s)

Real-Time LCA additionally exposes Custom and Level(s) (full EN 15978 module set, see Level(s)) for Finnish projects, useful for parallel reporting alongside a Climate Declaration submission.

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Limitations

  • No regulatory limit value is configured in Real-Time LCA for either Climate Declaration variant at this time. The result is reported numerically; compliance against any limit value introduced by the Finnish authorities will be added as the regulation is finalised.
  • Output-format details (the format and submission workflow expected by the Finnish authorities) are tracked separately and will be added to this page when the export pipeline is finalised.