Sustainability analysis of earthmoving operations

Author

Ahn, Changbum ; Martinez, Julio C. ; Rekapalli, Prasant V. ; Pena-Mora, Feniosky A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

13-16 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

2605

Lastpage

2611

Abstract

Emissions from construction equipment are the main contributor of environmental impacts from construction processes, and mitigating these impacts is an important aspect of operations design and planning. To this end, emission estimation models play an important role in environmental management of construction operations. This paper presents an emission model that integrates with discrete-event simulation (DES) for more accurate emission estimates from construction operations compared to existing models. The paper also presents a case study which analyzes sustainability of an earthmoving operation, to demonstrate the application of DES for estimating emissions.

Keywords

construction equipment; design for environment; environmental management; planning; sustainable development; construction equipment; construction operations; construction processes; earthmoving operations; environmental impacts; environmental management; operations design; planning; sustainability analysis; Air pollution; Atmospheric modeling; Civil engineering; Diesel engines; Discrete event simulation; Energy consumption; Environmental management; Fuels; Life estimation; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2009 Winter

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5770-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2009.5429656

Filename

5429656