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Decision Support System for Infrastructure Sustainability in Operations

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Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2012)

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There is an increasing awareness of sustainability and climate change and its impact on infrastructure and engineering asset management in design, construction, and operations. Sustainability rating tools have been proposed and/or developed that provide ratings of infrastructure projects in differing phases of their life cycle on sustainability. This paper provides an overview of decision support systems using sustainability rating framework that can be used to prioritize or select tasks and activities within projects to enhance levels of sustainability outcomes. These systems can also be used to prioritize projects within an organization to optimize sustainability outcomes within an allocated budget.

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This work was undertaken as part of The Sustainability Assessment for Infrastructure Project and is part of the larger CRC for infrastructure and engineering asset management. The CRC for infrastructure and engineering asset management (CIEAM) would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Commonwealth Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program and the contributions from our industry, government, and university participants. The overall support provided by the CEO, and Professor Joseph Mathew is gratefully appreciated.

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  1. Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Cooperative Research Centre for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD, 4001, Australia

    Gavin Shaw, Arun Kumar & David Hood

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  2. World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Gyeongnam, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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  3. Queensland University of Technology, Graceville, Queensland, Australia

    Lin Ma

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Shaw, G., Kumar, A., Hood, D. (2015). Decision Support System for Infrastructure Sustainability in Operations. In: Lee, W., Choi, B., Ma, L., Mathew, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM 2012). Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06966-1_46

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