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Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS): Application to Engineering Projects
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Civil engineering development has advanced dramatically over the years. The unsustainable use of resources in various activities involved in the engineering projects releases undesirable amounts of emissions and other waste streams into the environment causing negative environmental impacts including global warming, resource depletion, eutrophication and acidification among many others. In the past decade or so, considerable efforts have been made to incorporate sustainable practices into the design and construction of infrastructure projects with an aim to minimize the net negative environmental, economic and social impacts of the project. Over the past few years, several researchers have developed project specific tools to aid the practitioners to assess and compare the sustainability of the potential design alternatives in a project. In most cases, these tools focused mainly on the environmental impacts with a minimal (often a qualitative approach) or even no regard to the broader economic and social impacts of the alternative design options in a project. For the true sustainability assessment, it is imperative that the assessment methodology incorporates a quantitative and life cycle approach for the decision-making on the most sustainable design alternative in a project. In this regard, a framework “Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS)” is developed to quantify the overall sustainability of a project/activity and facilitate the decision-making process. The QUALICS framework is not just limited to civil engineering projects but can be used in projects of any engineering domain. The main aim of this paper is to describe the QUALICS framework and demonstrate its application to assess the overall sustainability of design alternatives in a project.
Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS): Application to Engineering Projects
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6577-1151
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6089-3029
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4842-1317
Civil engineering development has advanced dramatically over the years. The unsustainable use of resources in various activities involved in the engineering projects releases undesirable amounts of emissions and other waste streams into the environment causing negative environmental impacts including global warming, resource depletion, eutrophication and acidification among many others. In the past decade or so, considerable efforts have been made to incorporate sustainable practices into the design and construction of infrastructure projects with an aim to minimize the net negative environmental, economic and social impacts of the project. Over the past few years, several researchers have developed project specific tools to aid the practitioners to assess and compare the sustainability of the potential design alternatives in a project. In most cases, these tools focused mainly on the environmental impacts with a minimal (often a qualitative approach) or even no regard to the broader economic and social impacts of the alternative design options in a project. For the true sustainability assessment, it is imperative that the assessment methodology incorporates a quantitative and life cycle approach for the decision-making on the most sustainable design alternative in a project. In this regard, a framework “Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS)” is developed to quantify the overall sustainability of a project/activity and facilitate the decision-making process. The QUALICS framework is not just limited to civil engineering projects but can be used in projects of any engineering domain. The main aim of this paper is to describe the QUALICS framework and demonstrate its application to assess the overall sustainability of design alternatives in a project.
Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS): Application to Engineering Projects
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6577-1151
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6089-3029
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4842-1317
Civil engineering development has advanced dramatically over the years. The unsustainable use of resources in various activities involved in the engineering projects releases undesirable amounts of emissions and other waste streams into the environment causing negative environmental impacts including global warming, resource depletion, eutrophication and acidification among many others. In the past decade or so, considerable efforts have been made to incorporate sustainable practices into the design and construction of infrastructure projects with an aim to minimize the net negative environmental, economic and social impacts of the project. Over the past few years, several researchers have developed project specific tools to aid the practitioners to assess and compare the sustainability of the potential design alternatives in a project. In most cases, these tools focused mainly on the environmental impacts with a minimal (often a qualitative approach) or even no regard to the broader economic and social impacts of the alternative design options in a project. For the true sustainability assessment, it is imperative that the assessment methodology incorporates a quantitative and life cycle approach for the decision-making on the most sustainable design alternative in a project. In this regard, a framework “Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS)” is developed to quantify the overall sustainability of a project/activity and facilitate the decision-making process. The QUALICS framework is not just limited to civil engineering projects but can be used in projects of any engineering domain. The main aim of this paper is to describe the QUALICS framework and demonstrate its application to assess the overall sustainability of design alternatives in a project.
Quantitative Assessment of Life Cycle Sustainability (QUALICS): Application to Engineering Projects
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Patel, Satyajit (editor) / Solanki, C. H. (editor) / Reddy, Krishna R. (editor) / Shukla, Sanjay Kumar (editor) / Reddy, Krishna R. (author) / Kumar, Girish (author) / Chetri, Jyoti K. (author)
2021-03-19
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Sustainability , Climate change , Decision-making , Environmental sustainability , Economic sustainability , Geotechnical engineering , Geoenvironmental engineering , Life cycle assessment , Social sustainability Engineering , Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics , Building Materials , Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
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