@JacobSavona - can I pick your brain about this more - using OneClick constructions as a basis for your calculations?
@jschwartzhoff , similar to what Jacob replied, we use a combination of the Revit model, OneClick’s Revit plug-in, excel and OneClick on the the cloud to complete the LCA. (It really becomes more than one click, but who’s counting…) We have never used the automatic mapping because when we first started using OneClick it was very black-boxy and it was mapping to EPDs that really didn’t match - with that said, their database is HUGE! and if you’re conducting a LCA for elements that may not have an industry standard EPD (like NRMCA for concrete or ASIC for steel) nor a product specific EPD it can sometimes be difficult to narrow down which product to use. We have found that using excel to keep track of everything is best and it’s easy to export/import into OneClic - which is very handy if you don’t even have a Revit model but want to do a full LCA even on a simple bay study/rough estimation of quantities.
For enclosure elements, although it’s a little more tedious, we end up breaking the assembly up into each of it’s parts for more transparent book keeping. We also have found that we need to do this because often the enclosures we do are so customized.