Sustainability assessment for urban underground utility infrastructure projects

Developing sustainability criteria for urban infrastructure systems1

Research in the area of sustainable urban infrastructure reflects the need to design and manage engineering systems in light of both environmental and socioeconomic considerations. A principal challenge for the engineer is the development of practical tools for measuring and enhancing the sustainability of urban infrastructure over its life cycle. The present study develops such a framework for...

Geoelectrical Imaging for Site Investigation for Urban Underground Infrastructure

A. Purpose and aims The TRUST project brings together scientists from the Swedish Universities of the Built Environment (SBU, i.e. Chalmers University of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Luleå University of Technology and Lund University Faculty of Engineering), Uppsala University (UU), the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) and a number of private companies with the aim to improve too...

Urban Infrastructure Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Infrastructure and urban sustaInabIlIty: lookIng back and lookIng forward Sustainability

Sustainability has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning decisions. The heritage of this interest lies in the steady evolution of ideas concerning the environmental and ecological impact of economic development. Beginning perhaps with the work of the Club of Rome but accelerating sharply with the insights of ...

Managing Knowledge to Promote Sustainability in Australian Transport Infrastructure Projects

To deliver tangible sustainability outcomes, the infrastructure sector of the construction industry needs to build capacities for the creation, application and management of ever increasing knowledge. This paper intends to establish the importance and key issues of promoting sustainability through knowledge management (KM). It presents a new conceptual framework for managing sustainability know...