In addition to the environmental burden of its construction and demolition activities, Flemish housing market faces a structural affordability challenge. As one possible answer, this research explores potential so-called expandable houses, being built increasingly often. Through specific design choices that enable disassembly future reuse individual components so align with idea circular econom...

Developed an integrated intellectual computerized system of ecological-economic monitoring, modeling, and managing the life cycle of the products of technogenic enterprises of transport engineering, which is presented in the form of a 3-equation structure, functioning in conditions of instability. The proposed paradigm system life cycle management applicable to any other control system of large...

Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to continued deterioration existing building inventory infrastructure, resulting in large near future. Reinforcement corrosion most important mechanism, causing (i) severe damage (cracking along reinforcement spalling cover concrete) (ii) loss steel...

Abstract Standard life cycle techniques such as warranty cost (LCWC) analysis and (LCA) are used to respectively quantify the relative economical environmental advantages of remanufactured goods while simultaneously identifying avenues for improvement. In this paper, we contribute literature on studies by incorporating reliability into LCWC LCA with goal improving long-term/multiple decision ma...

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost (LCC) is important for assessing balancing the economic environmental impact of buildings, Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a potential way doing this. However, despite an ample amount published work about integration LCA LCC using BIM, no thorough review this has yet been conducted. This study, therefore, aims to address gap by reviewi...

Todays efforts to optimize industrial production processes exceedingly focus on tools’ life cycle costs. Toolmaker and its customer are the two entities influencing tools’ life cycle costs. Due to lack of information exchange neither life cycle assessment nor cost efficient life cycles can be realized. An effective lever for penetrating information exchange and therefore gaining cost efficiency...