Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

Table 2

Summary of sustainable databases.

Database	General purpose database	Construction-specific database	LCA	ECC	EEC	Region
Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE)		✓		✓	✓	UK
European Life Cycle Database (ELCD)	✓		✓	✓		Europe
U.S. Life Cycle Inventory (U.S. LCI)	✓		✓	✓		US
Ecoinvent	✓		✓	✓		Switzerland
Oekobaudat.de (German)			✓	✓		Germany
Milieudatabase.nl (Dutch)			✓	✓		Netherlands
French national database			✓	✓		French
Australia LCI			✓	✓		Australia
SimaPro database			✓	✓		Netherlands
Gabi database	✓		✓	✓		Germany
CPM LCA			✓	✓		Sweden
EPD database BBRI (Belgian)			✓	✓		Belgium
ProBas			✓	✓		Germany
Japan Sustainable Building Database						Japan
BEDEC			✓	✓		Spain
Athena database		✓				Canada
New Zealand building materials embodied energy database		✓				New Zealand
Building Products Life Cycle Inventory		✓				Australia

LCA: life cycle assessment, EEC: embodied energy coefficients, and ECC: embodied carbon coefficients.