Abstract: The U.S. construction industry accounts for approximately 4% of the gross domestic product. Although quantifying and analyzing the cumulative ecological resource consumption of the construction industry is of great importance, ...

Abstract: Sustainability assessment tools are critical in the process of achieving sustainable development. Eco-efficiency has emerged as a practical concept that combines environmental and economic performance indicators to measure ...

Abstract: Previous performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics. These are primarily related to economic life-cycle cost analysis decision-making strategies ...

Abstract: Previous performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics. These are primarily related to economic life-cycle cost analysis decision-making strategies ...