Reports turn the project into something you can hand over. The LCA Report is a PDF — cover, methodology, project parameters, results, the charts behind them, and the EPDs the calculation used — and depending on where the project is, there are Excel reports alongside it.
Open Reports in the project rail.
Open starts the report builder. Anything you have generated before is listed underneath, so a report you have already issued stays reachable.
What you can generate
Which reports appear here depends on the project’s country. Every project gets the LCA Report PDF. On top of that, projects get the Excel reports their country’s scheme or authority expects — so a project in one country offers a different set from a project in another.
The country is set when the project is created and fixed for its life, so the reports available to a project never change.
The PDF is the readable deliverable; the Excel reports are the machine-readable ones, in the layouts a scheme or authority asks for. Where a submission expects a specific spreadsheet, use the Excel report rather than transcribing figures out of the PDF.
The builder
Pages on the left walks through the document; the preview shows exactly what will print. Along the bottom sit the three things that apply to the whole report:
Download PDF produces the file.
A report generated while mapping is incomplete reports the project as it stands, not as it will be. Check the mapping overview before issuing one to a client. What is in it
The Cover carries the project name and the headline LCA result, and takes your client logo. The LCA page is the contents list plus a plain-language explanation of what a life-cycle assessment covers — useful when the report goes to someone who does not read LCAs for a living.
Overview is the one to spend time on. The project description is yours to write, there is a slot for a building render or photo, and the QA/QC fields record who checked the calculation and when. Included LCA modules shows at a glance which stages the result covers.
Results states the calculation method and every project parameter behind the number — consideration period, areas, energy supply, standard values — then the total against the limit value and the same splits you see on the dashboard.
Additional Results carries the ranked impacts and the cumulative curve, each with a note box beside it. Those notes are where a report earns its keep: the chart shows what happened, your note says why it matters and what you recommend.
Background Data documents what the numbers rest on: the standard values in use, and every EPD referenced by the project’s materials with its declaration number. This is the page an auditor turns to first.
Reports and revisions
A report is pinned to the revision it was taken from — it names that revision and version, and is listed while the project is on, or previewing, that revision.
Save a revision before generating a report you intend to send. The revision is what lets you come back months later and reproduce exactly the figures the report contains.
