Sustainability Considerations for Bridges Guide

The road and highway bridge engineering community has long been considering many aspects of sustainability, such as safety, durability, and aesthetics. However, these efforts are rarely coordinated with the goal of improving sustainability due to the lack of a standard framework or guidance for considering and improving sustainability for bridges. In recent years the sustainability of transportation infrastructure has been given broad attention, as the realization of impacts on the environment and the social and economic wellbeing of neighbouring communities and society at large have become widely recognized. The Sustainability Considerations for Bridges Guide is intended to help transportation agencies and bridge professionals improve the sustainable (i.e., social, economic and environmental) benefits of their projects and communicate those improvements to stakeholders in a consistent and objective manner. It provides broad direction on sustainability considerations specific to bridge planning, design, construction and management. The Guide has been developed on the same framework as the TAC Canadian Guide for Greener Roads and includes sustainability concepts and objectives and it is supported by 22 practices.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • GUNTER, C
  • Jing, J
  • PLANTE, T
  • Hachborn, A
  • STOFKO, B
  • Bender, G
  • LUKASHENKO, J
  • Holmes, K
  • Vachon, M
  • ROBINS, S
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: 1 v., 403p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Bridges; Economic efficiency; Environmental protection; Habitat (Ecology); Life cycle analysis; Safety; Sustainable development
• ITRD Terms: 3455: Bridge; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 2428: Ecobalance; 237: Economic efficiency; 2444: Environment protection; 5950: Life cycle; 1665: Safety; 2427: Sustainability
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Safety and Human Factors; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591684
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 26 2016 10:52AM