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Reference and glossary

Glossary

Section titled “Glossary”

Baseline : The documented incumbent specification or verified installed product against which alternatives are compared.

Claim : The root record for an insured loss, which may involve several properties, jobs and estimates.

EPD : Environmental Product Declaration. A verified document reporting a product’s life-cycle environmental indicators under stated rules. Not to be confused with EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility).

Evidence : A document, measurement, photograph, ticket or record linked to a resource, with a hash and chain of custody.

Functional unit : The quantified performance a product or assembly must deliver, used as the basis for comparison.

LKQ : Like kind and quality. A replacement standard used in property claims.

Lifecycle module : A stage of a product’s life cycle, such as A1 to A3 (product stage) or C1 to C4 (end of life).

PCR : Product category rules. The rules a declaration follows for a product category.

Perspective : The point of view, such as claim, contractor or insurer, that determines a report’s boundary and allocation.

Provenance : The record of where a value came from and how it was derived.

TRP : TRAX Restoration Protocol.

Candidate references

Section titled “Candidate references”

These are sources to validate against before any section is designated normative. Listing them does not mean TRP has been independently certified against them. Record the edition, access rights, jurisdiction and reviewed clause for each normative dependency.

  • GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
  • ISO 14040 and 14044 (life cycle assessment), ISO 14025 (Type III declarations), ISO 14067 (product carbon footprint), ISO 21930 (construction product declarations)
  • EN 15804 and EN 15978 (lifecycle-module conventions). These are licensed standards; TRP does not reproduce protected text.
  • National emission-factor datasets and grid-intensity datasets
  • JSON Schema, OpenAPI
  • RFC 2119 and RFC 8174
  • OWASP API Security Project
  • IICRC standards for restoration practice