TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of sustainable infrastructure
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World, ICSI 2014
AU - Reiner, M. B.
AU - Fisher, S.
AU - Sperling, J.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - If infrastructure is considered the basic physical and organizational structure needed for the operation of a society, how will the rapidly urbanizing centers in the developing world, many of which have large informal communities (i.e., slums), provide it? Various tools exist that assist engineers in the design and evaluation of sustainable project features, but innovation and long-term acceptance of the systems are lost if the unique cultural characteristics and resource constraints are not used as a refractive lens prior to project considerations. In this paper, a framework is presented within the context of cultural and resource constraints to assist the successful adaptation and application of existing sustainable infrastructure evaluation tools. The framework recognizes that an individual project shares space in a hierarchical spectrum of development unique to each city, characterized by multiple influences and motivations at different scales within social, natural, and built systems.
AB - If infrastructure is considered the basic physical and organizational structure needed for the operation of a society, how will the rapidly urbanizing centers in the developing world, many of which have large informal communities (i.e., slums), provide it? Various tools exist that assist engineers in the design and evaluation of sustainable project features, but innovation and long-term acceptance of the systems are lost if the unique cultural characteristics and resource constraints are not used as a refractive lens prior to project considerations. In this paper, a framework is presented within the context of cultural and resource constraints to assist the successful adaptation and application of existing sustainable infrastructure evaluation tools. The framework recognizes that an individual project shares space in a hierarchical spectrum of development unique to each city, characterized by multiple influences and motivations at different scales within social, natural, and built systems.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784478745.037
DO - 10.1061/9780784478745.037
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84915731485
T3 - ICSI 2014: Creating Infrastructure for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure
SP - 420
EP - 433
BT - ICSI 2014
A2 - Hendrickson, Chris
A2 - Crittenden, John
A2 - Wallace, Bill
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 6 November 2014 through 8 November 2014
ER -
