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Katrin Lenz
Department Life Cycle Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP), D-70563 Stuttgart, Germany

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Published: 19 September 2018 in Buildings
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the standard method for the quantification of environmental impacts within the construction sector, relying on available generic LCA databases. New developments, such as the increased influence of the building construction for LCA and the forthcoming of building information modeling (BIM), implicate new requirements on multiscale levels of development and complexity for LCA construction databases. At the example of the German “Ökobau.dat”, one of the leading LCA construction databases, this publication discusses whether the database is able to meet these requirements. The analysis shows the strengths of the Ökobau.dat with regard to standardization conformity (EN 15804, ILCD), data provision in machine-readable XML format, and the provision of an application programming interface. Shortcomings include incorrect linking of building life cycle inventory data with environmental information, incorrect documentation of functional units, missing generic datasets, the modeling of energy use data or the lack of a uniform structuring, or material classification. The authors propose solutions such as the provision of appropriate functional units, the implementation of a top-down approach to investigate the completeness of data based on existing nomenclatures or the extension with an appropriate material classification. This would allow for future viability and adaptability of Ökobau.dat for digital LCA.

ACS Style

Johannes Gantner; Katrin Lenz; Rafael Horn; Petra Von Both; Sebastian Ebertshäuser. Ökobau.dat 3.0–Quo Vadis? Buildings 2018, 8, 129 .

AMA Style

Johannes Gantner, Katrin Lenz, Rafael Horn, Petra Von Both, Sebastian Ebertshäuser. Ökobau.dat 3.0–Quo Vadis? Buildings. 2018; 8 (9):129.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Johannes Gantner; Katrin Lenz; Rafael Horn; Petra Von Both; Sebastian Ebertshäuser. 2018. "Ökobau.dat 3.0–Quo Vadis?" Buildings 8, no. 9: 129.