ABSTRACT
This presentation will combine the efforts of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) to promote resilience and the use of life-cycle Cost Analysis in Civil Engineering in the US. ASCE’s Committee on Sustainability (COS) is working on a US Standard (ASCE 73-xx) or Manual of Practice for sustainable infrastructure and the Standard or Manual has many references and ties to resilience and life-cycle cost analysis. Additionally, ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute has been working on sustainability through their SE 2050 initiative. ASCE’s Grand Challenge for the Society is to reduce the life cycle cost of infrastructure projects by 50% by 2025 and steps taken to achieve this will be described.
ISI’s Envision infrastructure rating tool has many ties to life-cycle cost analysis and resilience that would help a project achieve Verified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum awards. Three example projects in the US will be highlighted. Within the Envision tool, credit is given in several of its sections, and specifically, Credit LD3.3-Conduct a Life-Cycle Economic Evaluation as well as six (6) sections on resilience. ISI partnered with ICMQ to establish Envision in Italy and now has over 6 Envision awarded projects and over 300 people who have achieved ENV SP status in Italy. Two (2) example projects in Italy will be highlighted with a connection to resilience and life-cycle civil engineering.
