Sustainability Assessment in Infrastructure Projects

María Isabel Más-López, Eva M. García-del-Toro (), Daniel Alcala-Gonzalez and Sara García-Salgado
Additional contact information
María Isabel Más-López: Departamento de Matemática e Informática Aplicadas a las Ingenierías Civil y Naval ETSICCP, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alfonso XII, 3, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Eva M. García-del-Toro: Departamento de Ingeniería Civil: Hidráulica Energía y Medio Ambiente ETSICCP, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alfonso XII, 3, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Daniel Alcala-Gonzalez: Departamento de Ingeniería Civil: Hidráulica Energía y Medio Ambiente ETSICCP, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alfonso XII, 3, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Sara García-Salgado: Departamento de Ingeniería Civil: Hidráulica Energía y Medio Ambiente ETSICCP, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Alfonso XII, 3, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 20, 1-17

Abstract: We present an easy-to-apply method for assessing the sustainability of infrastructure projects. The proposed methodology consists of determining the evaluation criteria to be applied to the projected infrastructure, considering the three fundamental pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental, and social), quantified according to impact values, in a range from zero to five. Once these were determined and assessed according to the range of impact, we established the sustainability limits or admissible impact limits for each type of infrastructure. The interaction between the sustainability limits assessed for each of the sustainability pillars and the evaluation criteria gives rise to the total influence factor (TIF), which is a value that represents the level of sustainability of the project analysed, according to which it can be classified into one of the five categories included, ranging from minor impact to unfeasible. It also allows for the local identification of criteria to which corrective actions can be applied, with corresponding scores calculated based on a rubric system. The result of the assessment of these corrective measures is the average of the scores of these three aspects. The corrective measures applied to the affected criteria will reduce the TIF and, therefore, increase the sustainability of the evaluated infrastructure.

Keywords: sustainability; civil infrastructures; total influence factor; corrective measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/20/14909/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/20/14909/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:20:p:14909-:d:1260566

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().