Updates and Demonstration of the FAA Airfield Life Cycle Assessment Tool “FAALCAn”: A Taxiway Case Study

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Updates and Demonstration of the FAA Airfield Life Cycle Assessment Tool “FAALCAn”: A Taxiway Case Study

Butt, Ali Azhar / Titterton, Nathaniel / Harvey, John / Filani, Iyanuoluwa / Garg, Navneet

The airports in the United States increasingly require an ability to quantify their environmental impacts from airfield infrastructure and to consider these impacts in airfield management, conceptual design, design, materials selection, and construction project delivery decisions. A web-based airfield pavement life cycle assessment (LCA) tool, “FAALCAn”, is currently being developed following the Federal Aviation Administration Pavement LCA Framework for national use. The user interface allows users to input foreground data to create their own materials, mix designs, orders of work for construction equipment, equipment types, and transportation modes and distances; users can also update electricity production and fuel type to reflect local conditions, along with other project information. The background data has been acquired from the Federal LCA Commons repositories. The tool can be used to perform complete airfield pavement LCA for any project. An asphalt pavement taxiway case study has been performed to demonstrate the use of the tool in this paper.

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Title :

Updates and Demonstration of the FAA Airfield Life Cycle Assessment Tool “FAALCAn”: A Taxiway Case Study

Additional title:

RILEM Bookseries

Contributors:

Flintsch, Gerardo W. (editor) / Amarh, Eugene A. (editor) / Harvey, John (editor) / Al-Qadi, Imad L. (editor) / Ozer, Hasan (editor) / Lo Presti, Davide (editor) / Butt, Ali Azhar (author) / Titterton, Nathaniel (author) / Harvey, John (author) / Filani, Iyanuoluwa (author)

Conference:

International Symposium on Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment ; 2024 ; Arlington, VA, USA June 06, 2024 - June 08, 2024

Published in:

Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2024 ; Chapter : 4 ; 32-42

RILEM Bookseries ; 51

Publication date :

2024-05-24

Size :

11 pages

ISBN :

978-3-031-61585-6 , 978-3-031-61584-9

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