Assessment score for green pavement technology elements

Sustainable green highway is becoming an important consideration in highway construction. To implement the concept of sustainability, a green highway rating system should be introduced in Malaysia to evaluate the green design in highways. Establishing a rating system as the determination of a score...

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Main Author:	Wan Azahar, Wan Nur Aifa
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TE Highway engineering Roads and pavements
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spelling	my-utm-ep.483582017-08-14T00:19:57Z Assessment score for green pavement technology elements 2014 Wan Azahar, Wan Nur Aifa TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements Sustainable green highway is becoming an important consideration in highway construction. To implement the concept of sustainability, a green highway rating system should be introduced in Malaysia to evaluate the green design in highways. Establishing a rating system as the determination of a score point is essential to assess the elements of a green design. Currently, there is no standardized local green highway rating system aside from the scores given to each element which varies depending on the different existing rating systems being adopted. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to determine the assessment scores by using a weighted factor approach which mainly focuses on the elements in green pavement technology. Basically, the approach was used to identify the significant elements that contribute to green technology and to provide guidance in determining the qualifying score points of these elements. The weighted values of the elements comprising pavement design life, reuse pavement, soil biotechnical engineering treatments, green techniques, cool pavement, permeable pavement and quiet pavement were generated from the agreement levels obtained from the experts through a survey. Questionnaires were developed and distributed to the 109 respondents consisting of highway experts especially from concessionaires, consultants and engineers to obtain the agreed levels of listed pavement technology elements. To obtain the weighted values, the agreement levels were analyzed using factor analysis from the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The results showed that the green technique and soil biotechnical engineering treatment obtained the highest score which is four and considered as the main basic elements in the implementation of green highway. This research has shown that the determination of assessment scores are important towards the development of a standardized green highway rating system in Malaysia 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48358/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic	TE Highway engineering Roads and pavements
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description	Sustainable green highway is becoming an important consideration in highway construction. To implement the concept of sustainability, a green highway rating system should be introduced in Malaysia to evaluate the green design in highways. Establishing a rating system as the determination of a score point is essential to assess the elements of a green design. Currently, there is no standardized local green highway rating system aside from the scores given to each element which varies depending on the different existing rating systems being adopted. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to determine the assessment scores by using a weighted factor approach which mainly focuses on the elements in green pavement technology. Basically, the approach was used to identify the significant elements that contribute to green technology and to provide guidance in determining the qualifying score points of these elements. The weighted values of the elements comprising pavement design life, reuse pavement, soil biotechnical engineering treatments, green techniques, cool pavement, permeable pavement and quiet pavement were generated from the agreement levels obtained from the experts through a survey. Questionnaires were developed and distributed to the 109 respondents consisting of highway experts especially from concessionaires, consultants and engineers to obtain the agreed levels of listed pavement technology elements. To obtain the weighted values, the agreement levels were analyzed using factor analysis from the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software. The results showed that the green technique and soil biotechnical engineering treatment obtained the highest score which is four and considered as the main basic elements in the implementation of green highway. This research has shown that the determination of assessment scores are important towards the development of a standardized green highway rating system in Malaysia
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author	Wan Azahar, Wan Nur Aifa
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title	Assessment score for green pavement technology elements
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Assessment score for green pavement technology elements

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