Emission Factor

Sawmill (construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is sawmill construction. The Reference Product is sawmill. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a sawmill, a factory in which logs are sawn into planks or boards by machine. The infrastructure consists of an input wood storage place, a lop station, a hall with the saw and a conveyer belt. It has an assumed lifetime of 50 years and a lifetime capacity between 51,540 to 2,500,000 m3 depending on the geography. The process includes land use, building material and their decommission. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/12942/documentation

PropertyValue
NameSawmill (construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2012
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/number
Scopes3.1, 3.2
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_sawmill_sawmill_construction
UUID
5049496c-d5ef-428a-8fde-d88edcc620e3
Code Snippet
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