Emission Factor

Housing system - cattle - loose - per animal unit (housing system construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is housing system construction, cattle, loose. The Reference Product is housing system, cattle, loose, per animal unit. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a housing system, cattle, loose, per animal unit. The infrastructure represents a typical agricultural building for cattle with a cubicle house for dairy cows and rearing to 6 months with the fittings, slurry store, dried roughage store, exercise yard and milking parlour. It has a total size of 22 LU (livestock unit) and a lifetime for the building of 50 years. The process includes the construction materials, building machines, materials for repair and replacement and 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/8051/documentation

PropertyValue
NameHousing system - cattle - loose - per animal unit (housing system construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
1994
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_housing_system_cattle_loose_per_animal_unit_housing_system_construction_cattle_loose
UUID
61e766d1-3fc4-4394-835e-da040758bf99
Code Snippet
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