Road network acts as a vein for the socio-economicdevelopment of country. To maintain sustainable development,countries all over world are investing heavily in road infrastructure development. Bangladesh, an essential partner Asian Highway, is alsoinvesting But due to poorplanning, inefficient implementing agencies, inadequate pavementdesign, low-quality construction practices, lack pavementmai...

Life Cycle Cost (LCC) is a vital decision-making tool for realization of investments. However, it often challenging to forecast the LCC building as comprises several elements which are influenced by range factors. Hence, this study was carried out identify significant factors affecting buildings. Twenty-four (24) and ten (10) identified through comprehensive literature review were presented thi...

The objective of this paper was to explore long-term costs for a single-family house in Sweden during its entire lifetime. In order estimate the total costs, considering construction, replacement, operation, and end-of-life over long term, life cycle cost (LCC) method applied. Different solutions were analysed including various economic parameters sensitivity analysis. Economic used analysis in...

Existing maintenance management systems implement periodic inspections and diagnoses perform to restore damaged facilities, making it difficult establish a long-term analytical budget plan. The Framework Act on Sustainable Infrastructure Management necessitates specific implementation plans for new items. This study proposes detailed method estimating infrastructure cost overcome the limitation...

0016-2361/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2012.03.031 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +60 16 590 3110; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (H.C. Ong). Increased biodiesel production is being proposed as one solution to the need to ease the impact of increased demand for crude oil and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Despite this, biodiesel has ye...

A new method to search best parameters of a transfer line so that the cost of each manufactured part will be minimised. The synchronised transfer lines with parallel machining are considered. Such lines are widely used in mass and large-scale mechanical production. The objective is to minimise the line life cycle cost per part under the given productivity and technological constraints. The desi...

The growing global competition is pushing for product lifecycle reduction, so that manufacturing system lifetime becomes much longer than the product lifecycle and, hence, flexibility is a strict necessity. Product and production system lifecycle co-design is hence a necessity for effective investments and, consequently, to make manufacturing attractive. To this aim, this paper presents a Life ...

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