TY - GEN
T1 - The social dimension of bridge sustainability assessment - Impacts on users and the public
AU - Zinke, T.
AU - Ummenhofer, T.
AU - Pfaffinger, M.
AU - Mensinger, M.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In the past, bridge design usually concentrated on structural aspects. The cultural significance of a bridge as well as the interaction with the surrounding environment were frequently neglected. Within the scope of a growing demand for a holistic assessment of building activities, many evaluation criteria going beyond the pure manufacturing cost come to the fore. They are, however, not completely developed for infrastructure buildings. While methods like life-cycle costing and life-cycle assessment are already applied for infrastructures, especially in the field of social assessment a lot of inaccuracies, assessment problems and methodological difficulties exist. This article summarizes different existing assessment approaches and tries to classify them. Furthermore, a method to quantify the impacts on users and the public by calculating the ma-croeconomic damage is proposed. Current developments of international standardization are incorporated in the considerations.
AB - In the past, bridge design usually concentrated on structural aspects. The cultural significance of a bridge as well as the interaction with the surrounding environment were frequently neglected. Within the scope of a growing demand for a holistic assessment of building activities, many evaluation criteria going beyond the pure manufacturing cost come to the fore. They are, however, not completely developed for infrastructure buildings. While methods like life-cycle costing and life-cycle assessment are already applied for infrastructures, especially in the field of social assessment a lot of inaccuracies, assessment problems and methodological difficulties exist. This article summarizes different existing assessment approaches and tries to classify them. Furthermore, a method to quantify the impacts on users and the public by calculating the ma-croeconomic damage is proposed. Current developments of international standardization are incorporated in the considerations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863974818&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1201/b12352-269
DO - 10.1201/b12352-269
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863974818
SN - 9780415621243
T3 - Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management
SP - 1836
EP - 1843
BT - Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management
PB - Taylor and Francis - Balkema
T2 - 6th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2012
Y2 - 8 July 2012 through 12 July 2012
ER -