ABSTRACT

Considerations ..................................................................................286 11.4 Inspection, Maintenance, and Preservation Aspects of Sustainability ........287

11.4.1 Comments on the Program in Germany ...........................................287 11.4.2 The Swiss KUBA: A Comprehensive Road Structure

Management System-Swiss Federal Roads Authority ................... 289 11.4.3 Bridge Management System for the Western Cape Provincial

Government, South Africa ................................................................ 289 11.4.4 Considerations for Sustainability in New Zealand ...........................290 11.4.5 Concrete Sustainability Progress in China .......................................292 11.4.6 Testing in the Persian Gulf Region ................................................... 293 11.4.7 Japanese and European Standards for Self-Compacting

Concrete (SCC) ................................................................................. 293 11.4.8 SCC Experience in India .................................................................. 293 11.4.9 SCC Case in Cambodia ....................................................................294

11.5 Some Global Considerations of Concrete Sustainability ..............................294 11.6 New International Considerations ................................................................ 295 11.7 Other Environmental Considerations for Concrete Sustainability ............... 295