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The activity generating the emissions is market for sand-lime brick. The Reference Product is sand-lime brick. The product "sand-lime brick" represents 1 kg of sand-lime brick produced from natural silica sand, milled quicklime, additives and water. Its production includes raw material provision, raw material mixing, forming by pressing, hardening by autoclave, packing, and storage. Sand-lime lightweight bricks are insulating bricks with a low apparent density (700 to 900 kg/m3). The most important use of sand-lime bricks in the building sector are: Masonry (supporting walls, parting wall, casing), fair-faced brickwork and Facing/Casing. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/2963/documentation

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NameSand-lime brick (market for)
SectorMaterials and Manufacturing
CategoryBuilding Materials
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Year
2011
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/kg
Scopes
XX,XX
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
xxx
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

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