Australia

Concrete block

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

Italy

Japan

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

United States of America (the)

South Africa

Bricks / tiles and construction products in baked clay

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Albania

Armenia

Angola

Argentina

Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Barbados

Bangladesh

Bahrain

Benin

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Bhutan

Belarus

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

Congo

Chile

Cameroon

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cuba

Djibouti

Algeria

Ecuador

Egypt

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Georgia

Ghana

Guatemala

Honduras

Haiti

Israel

Iraq

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Jamaica

Jordan

Kenya

Kyrgyzstan

Cambodia

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Sri Lanka

Libya

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

North Macedonia

Myanmar

Mongolia

Malawi

Malaysia

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Nicaragua

Nepal

New Zealand

Oman

Panama

Peru

Philippines (the)

Pakistan

Cement production

Antigua and Barbuda

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Bahamas

Belize

Central African Republic

Côte d'Ivoire

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Fiji

Grenada

Gambia

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Iceland

Kiribati

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Lesotho

Mali

Mauritius

Maldives

Other concrete product manufacturing

Emission intensity of concrete block. Provided by the Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database (ICM Database). Note: The CO2e value only takes into account CO2 CH4 and N2O. The CO2e values were calculated using the process method (no embodied GHG emissions from input-output processes are included). Data quality flag: Methodology - The source does not specify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e.

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: concrete block and brick manufacturing. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.3.

Concrete block and brick manufacturing

Emission intensity of supply chain (with margins i.e. cradle to shelf) in US dollars spend on: concrete block and brick manufacturing. This factor is representative of the described goods or services category as defined by the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Refer to the source for the source-specific data quality assessment. Retrieved from Supply Chain Factors Dataset v1.2.

Emission intensity of concrete block. Provided by the Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database (ICM Database). Note: The CO2e value only takes into account CO2 CH4 and N2O. The CO2e values were calculated using the hybrid method which combines process data from AusLCI with input-output (IO) data to account for upstream activities not covered in process datasets (e.g. services / finance / insurance / machinery / equipment / capital goods). Data quality flag: Methodology - The source does not specify the IPCC AR version of GWPs used to calculate CO2e.

The activity generating the emissions is concrete block production. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/21100/documentation.

Concrete block (production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

Concrete block (concrete block production)

The activity generating the emissions is concrete block production. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/3497/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is concrete block production. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/7471/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is concrete block production. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/29141/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is market for concrete block. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/21974/documentation.

Concrete block (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for concrete block. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/30445/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is market for concrete block. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/21204/documentation.

The activity generating the emissions is market for concrete block. The reference product is concrete block. The product "concrete block" represents 1 kg of a 4 MPa hollow concrete block, with dimensions (140 x 390 x 190) mm (width x length x height) and average mass of 12.4 kg. The blocks  are used in non-structural masonry walls and in structural masonry of houses and low-rise buildings. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/19557/documentation.

Emission intensity of concrete block - medium density solid - average strength - per kg. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) or IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) methodologies.

Concrete block - medium density solid - average strength

Emission intensity of concrete block - medium density solid - average strength - per kg. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using either IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) methodologies.

Emission intensity of concrete block - high density solid - average strength - per kg. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) or IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) methodologies.

Concrete block - high density solid - average strength

Emission intensity of concrete block - high density solid - average strength - per kg. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using either IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) methodologies.

Emission intensity of concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 190 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width. Assumes 84.7% aggregates 8% cement 5% PFA and 2.3% water. Stated as average UK concrete block mixture in EPD number EPD-BPC-20170092-CCD1-EN. EPD from the UK Concrete Block Association (CBA) a product group of British Precast. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) or IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) methodologies.

Concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 90 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width

Emission intensity of concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 90 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width.. Assumes 84.7% aggregates 8% cement 5% PFA and 2.3% water. Stated as average UK concrete block mixture in EPD number EPD-BPC-20170092-CCD1-EN. EPD from the UK Concrete Block Association (CBA) a product group of British Precast. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using either IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) methodologies.

Emission intensity of concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 75 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width. Assumes 84.7% aggregates 8% cement 5% PFA and 2.3% water. Stated as average UK concrete block mixture in EPD number EPD-BPC-20170092-CCD1-EN. EPD from the UK Concrete Block Association (CBA) a product group of British Precast. Estimated from ICE Cement Mortar Concrete model. The source does not clarify if the kgCO2e value is calculated using the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) or IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) or IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) methodologies.

Concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 75 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width

Property	Value
Name	Concrete block
Sector	Materials and Manufacturing
Category	Building Materials
Source	ICM Database
Region	Australia (AU)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2019
LCA Activity	cradle_to_shelf

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Concrete block	Australia	ICM Database	2019	Weight
Concrete block and brick manufacturing	United States of America (the)	EPA	2022	Money
Concrete block and brick manufacturing	United States of America (the)	EPA	2019	Money
Concrete block	Australia	ICM Database	2019	Weight
Concrete block (production)	Brazil	ecoinvent	2012	Weight
Concrete block (concrete block production)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1997	Weight
Concrete block (production)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	2012	Weight
Concrete block (production)	Germany	ecoinvent	1997	Weight
Concrete block (production)	Ecuador	ecoinvent	2022	Weight
Concrete block (market for)	Brazil	ecoinvent	2012	Weight
Concrete block (market for)	Ecuador	ecoinvent	2022	Weight
Concrete block (market for)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	2011	Weight
Concrete block (market for)	Germany	ecoinvent	2011	Weight
Concrete block - medium density solid - average strength	Global	Circular Ecology	2024	Weight
Concrete block - medium density solid - average strength	Global	Circular Ecology	2019	Weight
Concrete block - high density solid - average strength	Global	Circular Ecology	2024	Weight
Concrete block - high density solid - average strength	Global	Circular Ecology	2019	Weight
Concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 90 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width	Global	Circular Ecology	2024	Number
Concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 90 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width	Global	Circular Ecology	2019	Number
Concrete block - solid - medium density - average strength - 75 mm thickness - 440 mm length - 215 mm width	Global	Circular Ecology	2024	Number

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