Development of a Sustainability Evaluation System for Culvert Replacement and Rehabilitation Projects

As the number of deteriorated infrastructure assets, including culverts, continues to rise, there is a need to find the most cost-effective approaches to dealing with these assets. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that decisions cannot be made exclusively based on cost and that sustainability must also be considered. Although there exist a number of tools that allow environmental, societal, economic, and technical considerations to be assessed when evaluating alternatives for many infrastructure projects, there is no such tool for culverts. This paper describes the development of a culvert module for a commercially available assessment tool known as GoldSET. The environmental, societal, economic, and technical indicators used within the culvert module are introduced and described. The use of the tool is then demonstrated using two case studies that assess the viability of a traditional open-cut approach compared to trenchless approaches. For the two selected case studies, the trenchless approaches are found to be preferable except if considerations of technical uncertainties dominate the decision making.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000315
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Authors:
  • Tetreault, Jacob
  • Moore, Ian D
  • Hoult, Neil A
  • Tanzil, Dicksen
  • Maher, Michael L J
• Publication Date: 2018-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 04018004
• Serial:
  • Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1949-1190
  • EISSN: 1949-1204
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jpsea2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Culverts; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Evaluation; Rehabilitation; Social impacts; Sustainable development; Trenchless technology
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01662911
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Mar 16 2018 5:15PM