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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.212</doi>
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<article-title>THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FACTORS FOR<br/>
INVENTORY ANALYSIS</article-title>
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<author>SANİYE KARAMAN ÖZTAŞ<sup>1</sup> and LEYLA TANAÇAN<sup>2</sup></author>

<aff><sup>1</sup>Architecture Dept, Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey<br/>
<sup>2</sup>Architecture Dept, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) is an important phase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that
provides information on environmental impact assessment of products throughout their
life cycle. Local factors have an effect that can influence the results of an LCI. Many
developed countries established their own databases for inventory analysis thus
eliminating the issues related with locality. In some of LCA studies, data of similar
systems or technologies are considered into inventory calculations. However, there
might be mistakes in the inventory analysis results because of the differences between
the real system and the system used as a source. Environmental impact assessment is
an important selection criterion in the construction sector with different kinds of
materials. Turkey has lack of environmental data and is one of the developing
countries which has not yet generated a database for the construction materials. In this
study, it was aimed to discuss the importance of local factors for LCI. Therefore,
environmental information taken from Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of
the ceramic tiles manufactured in different geographical context were compared. It
was pointed out the urgency of local inventory data and concluded that the gaps may be
minimized with industry involvement.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Construction materials, Database, EPD, LCA, Locality, Turkey.</p>
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