Worth distinguishing two kinds of database here: registries of published EPDs (INIES, ÖKOBAUDAT, EC3, individual program operators’ own libraries) versus background LCI databases like ecoinvent, which supply the upstream process data an LCA draws on rather than hosting finished declarations.
ecoinvent
- Description
- The most widely used commercial background database for upstream process data — not an EPD registry itself, but what many EPDs' underlying LCAs draw on.
- Website
- ecoinvent.org →
EC3 (Building Transparency)
- Description
- Free, searchable aggregator of published construction-product EPDs, built for embodied-carbon benchmarking and comparison.
- Website
- www.buildingtransparency.org →
INIES
- Description
- France's national reference database for construction and building environmental and health data, feeding into RE2020 compliance calculations.
- Website
- www.inies.fr →
ÖKOBAUDAT
- Description
- Germany's national database of environmental data for building materials, maintained by the federal government.
- Website
- www.oekobaudat.de →
The International EPD System registry
- Description
- Public registry of EPDs published through EPD International.
- Website
- www.environdec.com/library →
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