Adaptation of environmental data to national and sectorial context: application for reinforcing steel sold on the French market

Gomes, Fernanda; Brière, Raphaël; Feraille, Adélaïde; Habert, Guillaume; Lasvaux, Sébastien; Tessier, Christian

doi:10.1007/s11367-013-0558-4

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“…For instance, these databases use common rules defined in the PCR, which can be a standard such as EN 15804 or NF P 01-010. The databases based on product-and country-specific information are able to take into account process-specific information (Gomès et al 2013).…”

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Comparison of generic and product-specific Life Cycle Assessment databases: application to construction materials used in building LCA studies

Lasvaux

Habert

Peuportier

et al. 2015

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been applied in the construction sector since the 1990s and is now more and more embedded in European public policies, e.g., for Environmental Product Declaration regulation or for building labeling schemes. As far as the authors know, these initiatives mainly rely on background impact data of building products provided by different databases' providers. The new productspecific and company-specific EPD data allow having more than one data for describing a building material. But are these new databases really displaying similar LCA results compared to generic databases? Does it depend on which impact category (e.g., global warming, acidification, toxicity) is considered? Methods To answer these research questions, this paper assesses numerical and methodological differences of two existing LCA databases for building LCAs: the

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Comparison of generic and product-specific Life Cycle Assessment databases: application to construction materials used in building LCA studies

Lasvaux

Habert

Peuportier

et al. 2015

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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“…Les hypothèses pour la fin de vie et l'éventuel recyclage des matériaux sont présentées dans le Tableau 55. Gomes et al (2013) sur le cas du recyclage de l'acier utilisé dans le secteur de la construction.…”

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Consequential Life Cycle Assessment Applied to Buildings

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2020

Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure

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“…for the Swiss context through the Ecoinvent data or in France, e.g. through a recent study (Gomès et al 2013), few appropriate generic data for a national context exists. In most of the countries in Europe, few generic datasets and only some site-specific LCA data are available.…”

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NativeLCA - a systematic approach for the selection of environmental datasets as generic data: application to construction products in a national context

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Lasvaux

Hodková

et al. 2015

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Purpose The aim of this paper is to propose guidelines for the selection of an accurate life cycle assessment (LCA) dataset of building products to be used as generic data for a national context. Methods The guidelines are structured within a methodology, called NativeLCA. First, a review of available datasets for construction products is presented such as generic LCA and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) databases for both national (e.g. France, Germany, Spain etc.) and European context. Secondly, a method is proposed to choose appropriate generic datasets by means of a hybrid methodology. A metaanalysis is conducted in the first step on the sample of collected datasets from the literature. When relevant, productspecific data (EPD of the different producers) are averaged to represent an average data or existing generic data are adapted to be more suitable for the context. Then, a data quality assessment enables to rank the different datasets according to the goal and scope of the study. Results and discussion This study provides consistent guidelines that can be used by building LCA practitioners to select relevant datasets depending on their goal and scope. A full case study for stone wool boards illustrates and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of the proposed methodology, namely in the selection of a coherent dataset as generic data for a national context. This work highlights the issues in terms of choice and adaptation of existing data for a national context. Industry data cannot be adapted due to confidentiality issues unlike unit process generic data. The use of data quality indicators then helps to select the relevant generic data for each context according to user needs. Conclusions While further efforts are needed to develop regional and sector-specific LCA databases adapted for each national context, the proposed guidelines showed that the current use or adaptation of existing data, if consistently done, can lead practitioners to increase the reliability of building LCA studies according to their goal and scope definition.

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Adaptation of environmental data to national and sectorial context: application for reinforcing steel sold on the French market

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

Comparison of generic and product-specific Life Cycle Assessment databases: application to construction materials used in building LCA studies

Comparison of generic and product-specific Life Cycle Assessment databases: application to construction materials used in building LCA studies

Consequential Life Cycle Assessment Applied to Buildings

NativeLCA - a systematic approach for the selection of environmental datasets as generic data: application to construction products in a national context

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