Bridges, Sustainability and the Structural Engineer
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Andrew Martin
(COWI A/S, Parallelvej 2, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Geneva 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 24-31 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815818356873 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Sustainability presents a broad range of complex and inter-related challenges to all those involved with bridges: as owners, designers, contractors, maintainers and users. This paper seeks to identify the attributes of a sustainable approach to bridges. The fundamental component aspects of sustainability that relate to bridges will be identified and discussed, under the headings of environment, society and economics. The life-cycle of a bridge is then examined, with the purpose of identifying how and when the competing priorities of these ‘aspects’ can be brought together to give integrated and comprehensive solutions. Aspects of some sustainability tools that are available to assist bridge engineers are then presented. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges sustainability life-cycle structural engineering sustainability tools
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