With buildings and infrastructure, it pays to take a life-cycle perspective
In the face of limited funding to address massive infrastructure needs, and with climate action at top of mind, it is more important than ever for engineers, designers, and policy makers to understand the full economic and environmental costs of infrastructure project decisions — and not just impacts relating to material choice or from initial construction, but the impacts of choices across the entire life cycle of a project.
Read more at: http://news.mit.edu/2018/life-cycle-perspective-for-buildings-infrastructure-0330