Dataset of service life data for 100 building elements and technical systems including their descriptive statistics and fitting to lognormal distribution

Abstract

This article presents the descriptive statistics of service life data of building elements, gathered through an international, European and Swiss literature review of LCA, LCC and other sources called “Real-Estate Management sources” that include building owners, banks, insurances, associations of tenants and owners, etc. Furthermore, the properties of the fitted lognormal distribution are given. The data are structured, using a hybrid decomposition (functional decomposition, according to the eBKP-H – SN506511 and material decomposition, as well). These data and the derived statistical distributions were used in a research study, in order to quantify the uncertainty and sensitivity of the LCA and LCC output, due to the variability of the building elements’ service lives.

Keywords

• Service life
• Lifetime
• Building elements
• Technical systems
• LCA and LCC
• Descriptive statistics