Material Inventory for Finnish Residential Buildings by Cohort and Building Part

53 residential building cohorts from Finland provide material volumes, masses, and intensities aggregated at four hierarchical levels. Data is based on digitized construction documents from Vantaa and Tampere archives, covering buildings from the 1940s to 2010s. The dataset was created by Tapio Kaasalainen of Tampere University.

Use Cases

• Modeling material stocks and flows in the built environment based on building type and construction decade.
• Benchmarking material intensity for life-cycle assessment based on building part-specific data.
• Analyzing historical construction trends in Finland based on cohort data for bearing and facade materials.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated at four hierarchical levels: entire building, vertical levels, building parts, and subparts.
• Covers 53 distinct building cohorts defined by type, material, and decade from the 1940s to 2010s.
• Primarily sourced from digitized construction documents from municipal building inspection archives.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Some theoretical building variants are included, which may not represent actual constructed buildings.

Provenance

Source

Tampere University

Collection Method

Digitized construction documents from Vantaa and Tampere building inspection archives and the National Archives of Finland.

Time Range

1940s to 2010s

Geography

Finland, primarily cities of Vantaa and Tampere (except for some type-planned houses).