Building part specific material inventory dataset for residential buildings in Finland

This dataset contains material volumes (m3), material masses (kg), and material intensities (kg/m2) for representative buildings from 51 residential building cohorts in Finland. These data are presented per material and in total, aggregated on three hierarchical levels on the correspondingly named sheets in the OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) file: the entire building (data_building), distinguished between vertical building levels (data_building_level), and distinguished between building parts (data_building part). Further details on the data are provided on the description sheet in the same file.

The cohorts are based on building type, main bearing material, main façade material, and construction decade. Each cohort is represented by one inventoried building, covering the combinations in the tables below. All buildings are located in the city of Vantaa, Finland, with the exception of the 1940s and 1950s houses, which are based on type-planned houses and thus have no specific location.

One dwelling house cohorts included in the dataset

Bearing material, Facade material
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

Wood, Wood
D
D
D
T
D
D
D
D

Wood, Brick

T
T
D
T
T
T
T

Brick, Brick

D
D
D*
D
D
D

Concrete, Concrete

D
T
D
D
D
D

Concrete, Brick

T
D
T
T
T
T

Concrete, Wood

T
T
T
T
T
T

Block of flats cohorts included in the dataset

Bearing material, Facade material
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

Concrete, Concrete

D
D
D
D
D
D

Concrete, Brick

T
T
T
T
T
T

D = Direct record based on construction documents.T = Theoretical variant with alternative façade material based on typical contemporary construction practice. All properties except the cladding and any related materials (e.g. battens) are identical with the corresponding direct record (the record for the same decade with the directly recorded bearing material).* Geometry determined based on construction documents from 1979 due to lack of suitably sized cases dated in the 1980s. Insulation thicknesses adjusted to match the represented decade’s building code.

The data are primarily based on digitized construction documents obtained from the Vantaa building inspection authority’s archives through the purchase portal Lupapiste Kauppa (https://kauppa.lupapiste.fi/). The 1940s and 1950s type-planned houses’ drawings are from the National Archives of Finland (https://astia.narc.fi/).

Version notes since 1.0.0: 1.0.2: Added wood facade variants to all one dwelling houses which have concrete as the bearing material.1.0.1: Changes to the terminology and some minor spelling corrections. The building data remain identical, as do their locations on the sheets.