Airfield Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Framework and Guidelines

Environmental considerations are an important aspect of sustainability. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an approach that can identify and quantify the life cycle environmental impacts of a system such as airfield infrastructure. A literature review found few detailed airfield pavement LCA studies. A framework and guidelines have been developed for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the use of LCA to evaluate airfield airside features and landside pavement to support decision-making to improve their environmental sustainability. The guidelines cover pavement, and other airside features, and provide recommendations for all stages of LCA, including goal and scope definition, life cycle inventory development, impact assessment, interpretation, critical review, and reporting. The guidelines follow existing standards, and are similar to those recently developed for highway pavements, but include aspects unique to airfields. It is expected that these guidelines will be updated as experience is gained from airfield LCA case studies.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784480953.021
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Butt, A A
  • Reger, D
  • Harvey, J T
  • Garg, N
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Highway Pavements and Airfield Technology 2017
  • Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania, United States
  • Date: 2017-8-27 to 2017-8-30
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 241-252
• Monograph Title: Airfield and Highway Pavements 2017: Airfield Pavement Technology and Safety

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Environmental impacts; Guidelines; Life cycle analysis; Sustainable development
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01690570
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784480953
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Dec 31 2018 10:00PM