Treloar, G J; Love, P E D and Smith, J (1999) Streamlined life cycle assessment: A method for considering environmental impact of road construction. In: Hughes, W (ed.) Proceedings of 15th Annual ARCOM Conference, 15-17 September 1999, Liverpool, UK.
Abstract
The main advantage of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is in supporting decision-making with scientific data. Fully developed LCAs, however, are time-consuming and costly to prepare, limiting their viability during the procurement process. Streamlined LCAs, on the other hand, can be used more effectively as decision-making tools, due to the reduced level of data required. The inclusion of input-output data improves the completeness of streamlined LCAs, which are often severely abbreviated. This paper demonstrates the integration of input-output data with case traditional LCA data for a road system. It is shown that the use of input-output analysis greatly increases the completeness of the analysis, while the inclusion of traditional LCA data greatly improves reliability. Results for a road system are compared to typical buildings.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | construction; input-output analysis; life cycle cost; road |
| Index terms: | procurement process, life cycle assessment, life cycle cost, decision-making, integration, environmental impact, road construction, input-output analysis |
| Subjects: | environmental impact, data analysis and analytics, contractual arrangements, civil engineering, research methods, organizational analysis, decision analysis |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Research Practice, Engineering Principles, Risk Management, Procurement, Sustainability |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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