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Moncaster, Alice; Anderson, Jane and Mulligan, Helen (2021). Supporting the Development of Quality Data. Availability, quality and use of construction product LCA data Ireland, Italy and Croatia. Irish Green Building Council.
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Abstract
The objectives of this report are to:
• Identify data sets for ten commonly encountered high impact construction materials, identified in the tender as class 1 Materials: namely Cement, CEM I, II & III, Aggregates, Steel, Aluminium, Glass, Brick and Timber. This data is to be country-specific where available, and generic where country-specific data is not available.
• Identify the key factors which vary the impact categories for each material in order to effectively create a calculation tool for each material and provide a roadmap for fitting generic data more closely to national data.
• Identify additional materials of interest specific to the country, which might include specialised or novel materials which are used in the country (defined herein as class 2) or locally produced low impact materials (class 3). For these materials, to suggest sources for data, and specify the quality of the data based on defined rules; and to identify relevant factors in national production.
• Propose a data quality assessment method and uncertainty surcharge for data from different sources, with awareness of not penalising small and innovative national manufacturers.
• Review existing databases and identify their key structures and functionality as a starting point for the development of national databases within the participating countries