PluginLCA
The PluginLCA is used to export the material quantities and their cost groups according to DIN276. Its the most basic Plugin currently. The result are two .csv file that hold information about the used materials quantities in volume and mass and lie the foundation for a later analysis with LCA databases. We are planning to automate this link so a complete automated LCA can be carried out based on the IFC data.
How to install?
Step by step
To install PluginLCA: you need to do the following
(in the root directory of the repo, here is the pyproject.toml file)
pip install -e '.[PluginLCA]'
The bim2sim core installation needs to be done before.
Test install
Examples
Please also take a look at
bim2sim/plugins/PluginLCA/bim2sim_lca/examples, which provides some
runnable examples for the LCA plugin. You can use these examples to test your
installation and learn from them. Additionally, they serve as good starting
points for your own projects.”
Structure of the plugin
The following figure shows the structure of the LCA plugin. Here you see which tasks are used and how they are combined.
(Hint: firefox has issue display mermaid figures completely, for more infos see issue #766)
This figure is generated by the script template_mermaid.py (see Visualization of bim2sim plugin structure).