Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2009, the U.S. cement and concrete industries established the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A primary thrust of MIT's activities has been improving the life cycle assessment practices to better quantify t...
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| author | Akbarian, M. Ulm, F. J. Xu, Xin Kirchain, Randolph Gregory, Jeremy Louhghalam, A. Mack, J. |
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| description | © 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2009, the U.S. cement and concrete industries established the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A primary thrust of MIT's activities has been improving the life cycle assessment practices to better quantify the environmental impacts over the life of a pavement. In their research, the MIT CSHub determined that the "use phase" can dominate the materials, construction, and maintenance phases of a pavement LCA and that two of the important factors in the use phase are pavement vehicle interaction (PVI) and Albedo. PVI describes the excess fuel emissions/energy from vehicles due to excess rolling resistance between the pavement and the vehicle. Albedo is the fraction of solar energy reflected by the Earth's surface, with lighter color, higher albedo surfaces reflecting more energy than lower albedo, darker surfaces. This paper will summarize the CSHub use phase research findings to date. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1370092023-01-30T15:39:11Z Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub Akbarian, M. Ulm, F. J. Xu, Xin Kirchain, Randolph Gregory, Jeremy Louhghalam, A. Mack, J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering © 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. In 2009, the U.S. cement and concrete industries established the Concrete Sustainability Hub at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A primary thrust of MIT's activities has been improving the life cycle assessment practices to better quantify the environmental impacts over the life of a pavement. In their research, the MIT CSHub determined that the "use phase" can dominate the materials, construction, and maintenance phases of a pavement LCA and that two of the important factors in the use phase are pavement vehicle interaction (PVI) and Albedo. PVI describes the excess fuel emissions/energy from vehicles due to excess rolling resistance between the pavement and the vehicle. Albedo is the fraction of solar energy reflected by the Earth's surface, with lighter color, higher albedo surfaces reflecting more energy than lower albedo, darker surfaces. This paper will summarize the CSHub use phase research findings to date. 2021-11-01T17:50:22Z 2021-11-01T17:50:22Z 2019-07-18 2020-06-02T18:47:00Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137009 Akbarian, M., Ulm, F. J., Xu, Xin, Kirchain, Randolph, Gregory, Jeremy et al. 2019. "Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub." Airfield and Highway Pavements 2019: Innovation and Sustainability in Highway and Airfield Pavement Technology - Selected Papers from the International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference 2019. en 10.1061/9780784482476.021 Airfield and Highway Pavements 2019: Innovation and Sustainability in Highway and Airfield Pavement Technology - Selected Papers from the International Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference 2019 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Society of Civil Engineers MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Akbarian, M. Ulm, F. J. Xu, Xin Kirchain, Randolph Gregory, Jeremy Louhghalam, A. Mack, J. Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title | Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title_full | Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title_fullStr | Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title_full_unstemmed | Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title_short | Overview of Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Use Phase Research at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub |
| title_sort | overview of pavement life cycle assessment use phase research at the mit concrete sustainability hub |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137009 |
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