The importance of environmental issues and costs in Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for highway projects
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01/08/2010
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Sustainability has been increasingly recognised as an integral part of highway infrastructure development. In practice however, the fact that financial return is still a project’s top priority for many, environmental aspects tend to be overlooked or considered as a burden, as they add to project costs. Sustainability and its implications have a far-reaching effect on each project over time. Therefore, with highway infrastructure’s long-term life span and huge capital demand, the consideration of environmental cost/ benefit issues is more crucial in life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA). To date, there is little in existing literature studies on viable estimation methods for environmental costs. This situation presents the potential for focused studies on environmental costs and issues in the context of life-cycle cost analysis. This paper discusses a research project which aims to integrate the environmental cost elements and issues into a conceptual framework for life cycle costing analysis for highway projects. Cost elements and issues concerning the environment were first identified through literature. Through questionnaires, these environmental cost elements will be validated by practitioners before their consolidation into the extension of existing and worked models of life-cycle costing analysis (LCCA). A holistic decision support framework is being developed to assist highway infrastructure stakeholders to evaluate their investment decision. This will generate financial returns while maximising environmental benefits and sustainability outcome. |
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International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP) |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/37937/1/c37937.pdf http://www.isap-nagoya2010.jp/ Goh, Kai Chen & Yang, Jay (2010) The importance of environmental issues and costs in Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for highway projects. In The 11th International Conference on Asphalt Pavement, International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), Nagoya Congress Center, Aichi, 228-235 . |
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Copyright 2010 [please consult the authors] |
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Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering; School of Urban Development |
Palavras-Chave | #120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning #120203 Quantity Surveying #Environmental #life-cycle cost analysis #highway #infrastructure #decision support |
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Conference Paper |