Design of Sustainable Bridges

Design of Sustainable Bridges

Van den Broek, M.I.

Vogtländer, J.G. (mentor)
Heidweiller, A.J. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

IPD

2012-09-28

In the upcoming years a few hunderds of pedestrian bridges in Rotterdam have to be replaced. At Agentschap NL and at Ingenieursbureau Gemeente-werken Rotterdam (IGWR) there is the desire to take sustainability into account when replacing pedestrian’s bridges. There was however not much information available yet about the criteria that make a bridge sustainable, and how to incorporate sustainability in the civil design process. During this graduation project a manual is desgined that gives practical guidelines specifically targeted at the sustainable design of pedestrian’s bridges. The manual has two goals: To introduce a new design process, in which sustainability is an integrated criterium; and to give visual information on what makes a bridge sustainable.

sustainability
LCA
ecocost
bridge
gemeentewerken Rotterdam

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bffab042-b8f6-4e98-9877-9fabe98e9830

Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2012 Van den Broek, M.I.