| Summary | ||
| Name of source | Athena Life Cycle Inventory Product Databases | |
| Provider | Athena Institute | |
| Summary text | A set of comprehensive, comparable life cycle inventory databases for building materials and products in a series of reports | |
| Contact | http://www.athenasmi.org/contact-us/ | |
| Licensing | Free | |
| Language(s) | English | |
| Website | http://www.athenasmi.org/our-software-data/overview/ | |
| Access – data formats and accessibility | ||
| File type | HTML access to PDF files | |
| Software needs | Adobe Reader | |
| Contents – breadth and depth of datasets | ||
| Age | 1993-1997 | |
| Geography | USA, Canada | |
| Original Data Source(s) | Industry statistics | |
| Other Databases Included | Unknown | |
| Life cycle stages | Cradle-to-Gate | |
| Modeling approach | LCI | |
| Emissions results | CO2, CH4, N2O | |
| Number of datasets | About 50 | |
| Main topics | Construction | |
| Other topics | None | |
| Data transparency – what meta data is provided for each dataset? | ||
| System boundaries | Yes | |
| Data Types | Process | |
| Allocation Methods | Yes | |
| Technology | Yes | |
| Data year | Yes | |
| Original source | Yes | |
| Uncertainty | No | |
| Quality – is information provided on data quality? | ||
| Data quality score | No | |
| Quality assurance | No | |
| Standards compliant | Unknown | |
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