Title :
Technology selection in brownfields redevelopment
Author :
Saberiyan, Amy G. ; Olive, Leonard ; Kocaoglu, Dundar F. ; Williamson, Kenneth J.
Author_Institution :
NEEK Eng. Inc., Portland, OR, USA
Abstract :
Sustainable, redevelopments of contaminated "brownfields" properties offer many economic and social benefits. However, due to the uncertainties of potential clean up cost, the practicality of available technologies, time constraints, community concerns, as well as additional costs associated with development of brownfields sites, many developers forgo brownfields development. These same uncertainties cause lending institutions to hesitate in making loans for development of projects proposed for contaminated sites. The goal of this paper is to provide a general decision making model that can be utilized in the technology selection for decision makers on proposed brownfields site clean ups. A hierarchical decision model with pairwise comparison was selected to develop the general decision making model
Keywords :
decision theory; project engineering; project management; brownfields redevelopment technology selection; clean up cost; contaminated sites; decision making model; economic benefits; hierarchical decision model; pairwise comparison; project management; social benefits; sustainable redevelopment; Contamination; Costs; Decision making; Environmental economics; Fuel economy; Phase change materials; Time factors; Turning; Uncertainty; Uninterruptible power systems;
Conference_Titel :
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-890843-06-7
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952401
