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Resource Use Tool

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  • Product Type Life Cycle Assessment & EPD Development
  • Regions New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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  • Company Name Perspektiv
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ISC registered projects can now leverage Perspektiv‘s LCA Tool in place of the IS Materials Calculator for IS V2.1 Rso-6 Material Life Cycle Impact Measurement and Management or V1.2 Mat-1 Materials Lifecycle Impact Measurement and Reduction Credits.

The ISC approval for Perspektiv‘s LCA Tool as a suitable or equivalent methodology is a testament to our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions for our clients. Use our simple and transparent Resource Use Tool to manage all your resource use and greenhouse gas emissions modelling and monitoring (not just covering materials, but also energy, water and waste).

Organisations often say they are reducing resource use impacts but have a hard time contextualising their wins. Well, what we do at Perspektiv is support organisations to take an ordered approach to their many data inputs, and process them to produce a single, reliable and coherent model that also facilitates straightforward verification by linking up to the project’s basis of evidence.

Since its inception in 2018, Perspektiv‘s LCA Tool has been instrumental in helping our clients quantify impacts and drive savings across a range of sustainability credits. Some of the projects which have benefited from adopting Perspektiv’s holistic approach to LCA assessment include:

  • Parramatta Light Rail Stage 1 Infrastructure Works
  • EastLink WA 
  • Forrestfield Airport Link 
  • Monash Freeway Upgrade Stage 2 
  • New Intercity Fleet Maintenance Facility 
  • Westconnex M4 East 
  • Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal 
  • Morley-Ellenbrook Line 
  • NorthLink WA Southern Section 
  • Westport

Our team of Perspektiv LCA practitioners is dedicated to ensuring that our modelling complies with the minimum requirements set forth by the Technical Manual and ISC LCA Guideline. They undertake independent reviews on a national scale and align with ISC’s LCA review requirements. We provide a comprehensive and convenient solution for your next ISC project, from impact measurement to assessment, documentation and review. In addition to Mat-1 / Rso-6 our Tool can assist with the quantification of impacts across all resource use credits relating to energy, water and waste.

The ISC approval for our LCA Tool streamlines the submission process for ISC certified projects as it avoids the need to complete the IS Materials Calculator. It also gives its users such as project managers, designers, ISAPs and verifiers confidence in the integrity and consistency across relevant ISC resource credits results. Summary graphs and tables in the tool facilitate early hotspot identification and evaluation of opportunities to support decision making by project teams. The tool is the result of years of practice and refinement with focus on transparency and ease of interpretation, with format and scale adjustable to suit specific needs of each project. Meaning your project can worry less about the admin, and more about the outcomes. Together, we will find a better way.

Sustainability Outcomes

IS ratings done well are a great investment. IS ratings done poorly are an expense. Make your IS rating a great one by using our Life Cycle Assessment Tool to plan, track and record your resource use effort and:

  • reduce your staff overheads; 
  • understand your biggest impacts and wins; 
  • focus on what matters; 
  • document environmental benefits using accepted inventories and methods; 
  • simultaneously understand cost benefits; 
  • avoid the need to complete the IS Materials Calculator; and 
  • enable a good experience for all in the review and verification process.

Get in touch to discuss how Perspektiv can help reduce the material and energy impacts or your project, tender or asset. 

Applicable Credits

IS v1.2 Ene-1 , Ene-2 , Inn-1 , Lan-2 , Mat-1 , Mat-2 , Was-1 , Was-2 , Wat-1 , Wat-2
IS v2.1 Ene-1 , Ene-2 , Ene-3 , Inn-1 , Rso-4 , Rso-5 , Rso-6 , Rso-7 , Wat-1 , Wat-2
Ene-1 (ISv1.2) The Energy Inventory captures all construction and operational energy for relevant emissions sources, including land management and land use change impacts and waste impacts. It offers full capability to clarify assumptions and link back to evidence documentation. The Energy summary reports upfront, operational and whole of life outcomes against credit performance criteria for energy reduction, renewable energy rate and offsets and holds graphics and tables to highlight hotspots and a waterfall diagram for selected carbon reduction initiatives. The whole of project carbon summary integrates energy and materials impacts to show the project's upfront carbon, operational carbon and whole of life modelled impacts and decarbonisation performance towards carbon-neutral or net zero.
Mat-1 (ISv1.2) The Materials Inventory captures all construction and operational material uses as well as associated transports. Impacts are calculated both in terms of GHG emissions and EnviroPoints, there is no need to replicate the inventory in the IS Materials Calculator. Our inventory tool offers full capability to clarify assumptions and link back to evidence documentation. The Materials summary reports upfront, operational and whole of life outcomes against Mat-1 credit performance criteria and holds graphics and tables to highlight hotspots and a waterfall diagram for selected impact reduction initiatives. The whole of project carbon summary integrates energy and materials impacts to show the project's upfront carbon, operational carbon and whole of life modelled impacts.
Mat-2 (ISv1.2) The materials inventory allows for capture of environmentally labelled products and tracking of performance against Mat-2 benchmarks.
Was-1 (ISv1.2) The waste inventory captures all construction and operational waste types and streams to report total waste quantities and reuse, recycling and landfill diversion rates to inform the performance against the waste credit requirements. The impacts associated with waste quantities and transport are integrated with the project's whole of life carbon impacts via the energy inventory.
Wat-1 (ISv1.2) The water inventory captures all construction and operational water uses and source origin types. The water summary reports construction, operational and whole of life water reduction and potable water replacement performance against the Wat-1 and Wat-2 credit requirements. The impacts associated with water quantities and transport can be integrated with the project's whole of life carbon impacts via the materials inventory.
Ene-1 (ISv2.1) The Energy Inventory captures all construction and operational energy for relevant emissions sources, including land management and land use change impacts and waste impacts. It offers full capability to clarify assumptions and link back to evidence documentation. The Energy summary reports upfront, operational and whole of life outcomes against credit performance criteria for energy reduction, renewable energy rate and offsets and holds tables and graphics to highlight hotspots and a waterfall diagram for selected carbon reduction initiatives. The whole of project carbon summary integrates energy and materials impacts to show the project's upfront carbon, operational carbon and whole of life modelled impacts and decarbonisation performance towards carbon-neutral or net zero.
Wat-1 (ISv2.1) The water inventory captures all construction and operational water uses and source origin types. The water summary reports construction, operational and whole of life water reduction and potable water replacement performance against the Wat-1 and Wat-2 credit requirements. The impacts associated with water quantities and transport can be integrated with the project's whole of life carbon impacts via the materials inventory.
Rso-6 (ISv2.1) The Materials Inventory captures all construction and operational material uses as well as associated transports. Impacts are calculated both in terms of GHG emissions and EnviroPoints, there is no need to replicate the inventory in the IS Materials Calculator. Our inventory tool offers full capability to clarify assumptions and link back to evidence documentation. The Materials summary reports upfront, operational and whole of life outcomes against Rso-1, Rso-2, Rso-3 and Rso-6 credit performance criteria and holds graphics and tables to highlight hotspots and a waterfall diagram for selected impact reduction initiatives. The whole of project carbon summary integrates energy and materials impacts to show the project's upfront carbon, operational carbon and whole of life modelled impacts.
Rso-7 (ISv2.1) The materials inventory allows for capture of ISC-approved, sustainably labelled products and tracking of performance against Rso-7 benchmarks
Rso-4 (ISv2.1) The waste inventory captures all construction and operational waste types and streams to report total waste quantities and reuse, recycling and landfill diversion rates to inform the performance against the waste credit requirements. The impacts associated with waste quantities and transport are integrated with the project's whole of life carbon impacts via the energy inventory.
Ene-2 (ISv2.1) The energy inventory captures construction and operational phase onsite and offsite renewable energy sources and the energy summary displays the whole of life renewable energy rate to display the performance against Ene-2 credit requirements. Our tool caters for grid electricity decarbonisation scenarios for each state.
Ene-2 (ISv1.2) The energy inventory captures construction and operational phase onsite and offsite renewable energy sources and the energy summary displays the whole of life renewable energy rate to display the performance against Ene-2 credit requirements. Our tool caters for grid electricity decarbonisation scenarios for each state.
Inn-1 (IS v1.2) Contributes to Innovation Challenge 8: Sustainable Suppliers and ISupply
Inn-1 (Isv2.1) Contributes to Innovation Challenge 4: Sustainable Suppliers and ISupply.
Was-2 (IS V1.2) The waste inventory captures construction and operational phase waste quantities and tracks landfill diversion rates for spoil, inert C&D waste and office waste to determine the performance against Was-2 credit requirements.
Wat-2 (IS V1.2) The water inventory captures construction and operational phase non-potable water sources and tracks the potable water substitution rate to determine the performance against Wat-2 credit requirements.
Lan-2 (IS V1.2) The materials and waste inventories captures construction phase topsoil and subsoil quantities and allows for tracking of conservation of soil resources from cut to fill operations and balance with imports and exports to determine the performance against Lan-2 credit requirements.
Ene-3 (IS V2.1) The energy inventory calculates the actual case’s residual emissions of capital and operational emissions associated with upfront construction and operations phases and tracks the final balance from actual and committed offsets towards carbon-neutral and net zero against Ene-3 credit requirements.
Wat-2 (IS V2.1) The water inventory captures construction and operational phase non-potable water sources and tracks the potable water substitution rate to determine the performance against Wat-2 credit requirements.
Rso-5 (IS V2.1) The materials inventory captures adaptable or easily deconstructable/disassemblable components and prefabricated units or easily reusable/recyclable materials used in construction and operational phases to track end-of-life repurposing rates and determine the performance against Rso-5 credit requirements.
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