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THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FACTORS FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS |
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| Title | THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FACTORS FOR INVENTORY ANALYSIS |
| Creator | saniye karaman |
| Contributor | - |
| Publisher | ISEC PRESS |
| Publication Year | 2560 |
| Keyword | Construction materials, Database, EPD, LCA, Locality, Turkey |
| Abstract | Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) is an important phase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that provides information on environmental impact assessment of products throughout their life cycle. Local factors are effective for the results of LCI. Many developed countries established their own databases for inventory analysis thus eliminating the issues related with locality. In some of LCA studies, data of similar systems or technologies is considered into inventory calculations. However, there might be mistakes in the inventory analysis results because of the differences between the real system and the system used as a source. Environmental impact assessment is an important selection criterion in the building sector with a large number of material varieties. Turkey has lack of environmental data and is one of the developing countries which has not yet generated a database for building materials. In this study, the local factors for LCI phase were highlighted. It was firstly presented a state of the art of previous studies related existing databases developed for different geographical context. Then Turkish conditions were compared on a selected example of a building material. It was pointed out the urgency of local inventory data and concluded that the gaps may be minimized with industrial involvement. |
| ISBN | 978-0-9960437-4-8 |
