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Course text
Toward More Sustainable
Infrastructure:
Project Evaluation for
Planners and Engineers
Carl D. Martland
Wiley, 2011
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Course Objectives
Provide a framework for
understanding and evaluating projects
Financial, economic, social, and
environmental perspectives
Demonstrate how to apply the basic
methods of engineering economics in
project evaluation
Promote an approach to project
evaluation based upon the needs of
society and sustainable development
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Course concepts
J ustification of large investments in
infrastructure projects
Performance functions for infrastructure
projects
Cost-effectiveness of projects
Environmental impact
Economic feasibility of projects
Risk analysis of projects
Project optimization
Sustainability
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Topics
1. Role of infrastructure systems
2. Project development method
3. System performance
4. Multi-criteria decision making
5. Economic evaluation of projects
6. Environmental impact
assessment
7. Uncertainty & risk analysis
8. Project optimization & limited
resources
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Role of civil engineers
Build projects
Design projects
Evaluate projects
Propose projects
Define a
problematic
situation
Increasing
complexity
Decreasing
certainty
More possibilities
to consider
Greater need for
imagination &
leadership
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Message
Civil infrastructure
significant impact on natural, economic and social
environments
Engineers realize technical solutions
economically feasible
effective & efficient
environmentally sustainable
balance cost & risk
Sustainability
Development perspective
Balanced between multiple perspectives
Life-cycle view
Tradeoffs between short-term needs and long-term goals
Methodical impact assessment process
Take account of risk & vulnerability
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message
Multi-facetted approach to infrastructure development
Politics and good governance
Legal and statutory frameworks
Economic and fiscal planning
Land-use and infrastructure planning
Program development, project selection and execution, and
system maintenance
Social dynamics and community involvement
Focus (of module) - Engineering management
Systemissues
project selection
allocation of (scarce) resources
environmental impact
economic impact - costs and benefits
risk and uncertainty
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Civil engineers are problem solvers, but we need to
broaden the scope of our services to include problem
definition.
Civil engineers must go beyond thinking in terms of
project specific limits and scopes of work and become
involved in system-wide, program-related decisions and
policy-making to achieve long-term, sustainable
solutions.
We must be facilitators of collaboration among multiple
agencies/owners and across jurisdictional boundaries.
We must also take a leadership role in developing
acceptable and sustainable methods of funding
infrastructure development and asset management.
Kathy J . Caldwell, ASCE News, 2009
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Assessment
Quiz 15%
Project 30%
Exam 55%
Project
One group project.
Groups of 4 (max. 5) as a team effort. Special requirement
for non-CEE and exchange students.
Project to be based on an agreed topic.
Project consultations for groups.
Medium length report guidelines / structure of report
given.
May be called to give short live presentations of interim
work. No live final presentation.
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Admin matters
IVLE course web-site
Look for ce2184 module
Course instructors
A/P Chan Weng Tat <ceecwt@nus.edu.sg>
E2-03-16 ::: 6516 2576
Dr. Yeoh Ker Wei
Teaching assistant
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