Lifecycle cost and CO2 emission comparison of conventional and rationalized bridges

• Itoh, Yoshito

• Tsubouchi, Saori

• Kim, In-Tae

• Liu, Chunlu

Abstract

The construction industry consumes a great deal of natural resources and energy in constructing, maintaining and demolishing their products such as buildings and bridges. These activities lead significant impacts on global and regional environments in addition to their economic expenses. In this research, the lifecycle cost (LCC) and lifecycle CO2 (LCCO2) emission of newly developed bridges, including the minimized girder, rationalized box-girder and rationalized truss bridges, are quantified and compared with those of the conventional I-girder, box-girder and truss bridges. It was found that the newly developed types of bridges have lower values in both LCC and LCCO2 than the corresponding conventional bridges do. The effects of span lengths on LCC and LCCO2 are studied for both conventional and rationalized bridges. The characteristics of LCC and LCCO2 are investigated over the lifecycle of a bridge including its construction, maintenance and replacement stages.

Journal

• Journal of global environment engineering

  Journal of global environment engineering 11 45-58, 2006

  土木学会

Keywords

• lifecycle analysis
• lifecycle cost (LCC)
• lifecycle C02 (LCC02) emission
• rationalized bridges
• span length

Details

• CRID: 1050282813779168512
• NII Article ID: 10021137161
• NII Book ID: AA11047555
• HANDLE: 2237/18851
• ISSN: 13411268
• Web Site: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/16822
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
• Data Source:
  • IRDB
  • CiNii Articles