| Title |
Evaluation of Environmental Stress for Highway Construction Project by Life Cycle Assessment Method |
| Authors |
Moon, Jinseok ; Ju, Kibeom ; Seo, MyoungBae ; Kang, Leenseok |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2014.15.6.083 |
| Keywords |
Road construction project ; Life cycle assessment(LCA) ; Sensiti vity analysis ; Characterization ; Normalization |
| Abstract |
The global community demands the reduction of environmental pollution such as greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions. According to these requirements, the road construction project in the highest energy consuming industry is required the efficient way of reducing environmental pollution emissions. In this study, during the whole life cycle process, an environment impact assessment was performed for the several road construction projects in order to evaluate environmental stress through the road construction process. This study provides a proper process of environment impact assessment for life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis of road construction project, and figures the environmental stress regarding to the major construction materials for the case projects. In addition, this study conducted a sensitivity analysis for the key materials of environmental stress through the quantity analysis of major materials for the 1km section of a road construction. By this sensitivity analysis of total environmental stress change from the different volumes of constructing materials, it would be useful information for the environment impact assessment for the future road construction project. |