Sustainable Bridge Infrastructure Procurement
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Mohammed Safi
(Ph.D., Infrastructure Economist, FOLKBRO & ÅF AB, Stockholm, Sweden)
Guangli Du (Ph.D., Researcher, Danish Building Research Institute (SBi), Aalborg University, Denmark) Peter Simonsson (Ph.D., Bridge Specialist, Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden) Raid Karoumi (Ph.D., Professor-Head of Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 724-731 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.0703 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The lack of a flexible but systematic approach for integrating lifecycle aspects into bridge investment decisions is a major obstacle hindering the procurement of sustainable bridge infrastructures. This paper addresses this obstacle by introducing a practical holistic approach that agencies could use to procure the most “sustainable” (lifecycle-efficient) bridge through a fair design-build (D-B) tendering process, considering the main bridge lifecycle aspects: life-cycle cost, service life-span, aesthetic demands and environmental impacts. |
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| Keywords: |
bridge LCA life-cycle analysis life-cycle assessment (LCA) infrastructure aesthetic sustainable life cycle cost LCC design-build contract
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