Open AccessLCA analyses for roads and bridges as a tool for detailed and comprehensive environmental impact assessment
Author(s) -
Agata Dąbal,
Marcin Łyszczarz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
budownictwo i architektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1899-0665
pISSN - 2544-3275
DOI - 10.24358/bud-arch_16_151_04
Subject(s) - environmental impact assessment , environmental science , process (computing) , scale (ratio) , life cycle assessment , boundary (topology) , climate change , impact assessment , computer science , engineering , environmental resource management , civil engineering , mathematics , geology , geography , ecology , cartography , oceanography , macroeconomics , public administration , production (economics) , political science , economics , biology , operating system , mathematical analysis
The article presents possibilities of using LCA analyses for roads and bridges determining core boundary conditions and functional unit. The examples of characteristic process trees were studied and fundamental for further analyses. The environmental impact assessment methods, based on LCA analyses, illustrating roads and bridges influence on environmental elements such as climate or ozone layer, were presented. The influence of boundary conditions and the process tree expansion on the results obtained was described with its reference to the scale on environmental impact. It showed how the interpretation of the results make an optimization of a design possible in order to minimize the environmental impact.