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Abstract: The urban planning is one of the most important politics and territorial political instruments in measuring the sustainability as Agenda 21, Territorial Climate Energy Plan . The application of the sustainable development (SD) on the urban planning aims to take into account all its aspects and to sit up a multi-criteria analysis concerning the environmental, economic and social fields. A...
Abstract: LCA has already been applied to evaluate the potential impacts of tunnels on the environment. Indeed, this method which has been first developed for products and services is now usually used for buildings and turned out to be also very useful for other civil engineering structures like bridges and tunnels, and for public works. According to the Nordic Concrete Network, cited by the FIB in its...
Abstract: This paper aims to present the future French guidelines of the working group GT41 of the French Tunneling Association (AFTES). These recommendations provide an overview of the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to the design and construction of sustainable tunnels. They describe the methodology to be applied depending on goals and available information. LCA enables to evaluate global...