ABSTRACT
Charles B. Kubic Civil Engineer Corps, U.S. Navy, Pearl Harbor, HI, USA
ABSTRACT: This paper presents a life cycle evaluation strategy and its implementation to help ensure consistent, prudent life cycle decisions for naval waterfront structures. Planners and designers can use it to review both the impact that decisions have on life cycle cost and to determine alternatives that reduce life cycle cost of a waterfront facility. First, a relational database is used to identify the impact a specific scoping, planning or design decision has on costs across life cycle stages. Next, interrelationships among these decisions are used to identify inconsistent or incompatible choices. Then, summary reports are generated that contain specifics on life cycle costs that are affected by these decisions and potentially imprudent choices that might have been made. This tool provides communication of design alternatives and serves as a conceptual design framework for all parties involved in the life cycle process.
