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In recent times, a concerted effort is noted within the civil engineering industry in delivering built facilities that are eco-friendly and sustainable. Geotechnical construction, being resource intensive and by virtue of its early position in civil engineering projects, has a great potential to influence the sustainability of such projects. In this paper, a quantitative framework is proposed for assessing the sustainability of geotechnical projects based on multicriteria analysis (MCA). The MCA considers optimizing resource consumption, environmental impact and socio-economic benefits of a project over its entire life span. The developed framework is applied to a case study involving pile foundations and it is shown that the framework can be successfully used as a decision aid to choose a sustainable pile foundation type among different technically feasible alternatives.
In recent times, a concerted effort is noted within the civil engineering industry in delivering built facilities that are eco-friendly and sustainable. Geotechnical construction, being resource intensive and by virtue of its early position in civil engineering projects, has a great potential to influence the sustainability of such projects. In this paper, a quantitative framework is proposed for assessing the sustainability of geotechnical projects based on multicriteria analysis (MCA). The MCA considers optimizing resource consumption, environmental impact and socio-economic benefits of a project over its entire life span. The developed framework is applied to a case study involving pile foundations and it is shown that the framework can be successfully used as a decision aid to choose a sustainable pile foundation type among different technically feasible alternatives.
A Quantitative Sustainability Indicator System for Pile Foundations
GeoCongress 2012 ; 2012 ; Oakland, California, United States
GeoCongress 2012 ; 4252-4261
2012-03-29
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
A Quantitative Sustainability Indicator System for Pile Foundations
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