Constructed Civil Infrastructure Systems Research and Development

Our students become those engineers - experts who know how to build civil infrastructure projects that meet safety, quality, environmental and other requirements while effectively controlling the project's cost and duration. They become proficient infrastructure managers and utility engineers through a technical and integrated systems approach to the analysis and organization of complex infrastructure systems. Sensing and control functions are the fundamental technologies on which many civil infrastructure control and monitoring systems are constructed. Early civil infrastructure control and monitoring systems employed a centralized computing model for sensor processing and actuator control. Sustainability is also very quickly becoming a fundamental requirement of the construction industry as it delivers its projects; whether buildings or infrastructures. Throughout more than two decades, a plethora of modeling schemes, evaluation tools and rating systems have been introduced en route to realizing sustainable construction. Many of these, however, lack consensus on evaluation criteria, a robust scientific model that captures the logic behind their sustainability performance evaluation, and therefore experience discrepancies between rated results and actual performance. Moreover, very few of the evaluation tools available satisfactorily address infrastructure projects. Constructed Civil Infrastructure Systems: Research and Development brings together state-of-the-art research and reviews in construction information technology, construction data modeling and visualization, infrastructure sensors and sensor systems, infrastructure systems modeling and risk analysis, knowledge management for decision-support systems, and other advanced technology-based areas. It also addresses well-known gap within the current body of knowledge by considering infrastructure projects. This book reviews the recent development of life-cycle maintenance and management planning for deteriorating civil infrastructure techniques and considering simultaneously multiple and often competing criteria in terms of condition, safety and life-cycle cost.