Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) & Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) Methods for Civil Infrastructures
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Carleton University is pleased to announce a Short Course on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) Methods for Civil Infrastructures, to be held at Carleton University on May 9, 2025.
The course will be offered in both in-person and online (Hybrid) format.
Course Overview
Public service managers, specialists, consulting engineers and business professionals involved in planning, design, construction and management of civil infrastructure systems need an understanding of basic LCA, EPD and LCCA concepts to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly infrastructure solutions. This short course, therefore, will focus on fundamentals and key elements of life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental product declaration (EPD) and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) methods for civil infrastructures. The course will review life-cycle-thinking concept, LCA and LCCA methods, various efficiencies of process systems, material inventories and waste analysis, water footprint and energy footprint aspects. Furthermore, this course will review asset management components from LCCA perspective, LCCA approaches and methods and application. This course is designed so that participants can better understand LCA, EPD and LCCA topics, and thus, effectively use these tools to reduce environmental impacts, conserve resources, and enhance economic efficiencies in their respective application areas. All key concepts will be explained and emphasis will be placed on the practical application of the information provided.
Who should attend?
This course would be beneficial to all engineering and business professionals dealing with civil infrastructure planning, design, construction and management. In particular, this course will greatly help engineers working in civil, environmental, municipal, transportation, pavement, geotechnical engineering areas and especially to those involved in planning and management of municipal streets, roads, highways, public and private buildings, recreational facilities, parks, schools, municipal waste, water treatment facilities and mining. This course will enhance your understating to re-look at infrastructure engineering and management concepts from environmental and economic lenses. If you are new to the field and wish to have some formal exposure to the fundamentals, or if you have been practicing for some time and wish to undertake a refresher and be exposed to recent state-of-the-art developments, then this short course could form part of your professional developmental program.
*If you’d like to register with a cheque or bank draft, please contact us at CEEAdmin@cunet.carleton.ca.
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- understand the role of life-cycle-thinking in sustainability
- understand the concepts and fundamental elements needed for implementing LCA, EPD and LCCA tools in your everyday works.
- apply principles and standard frameworks for implementing LCA and appreciate challenges associated with the LCA and EPD.
- explore and apply efficiency concepts in lower level and high level engineering and business processes in your application areas.
- apply step-by-step methods for conducting LCCA for determining economic decisions related to infrastructure planning, design, implementation and management.
Course Instructor:
Dr. Kamal Hossain is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) licensed in Ontario, and Project Management Professional (PMP) certified from Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Hossain has over 15 years of experience in academia and industry in the areas of civil, transportation and construction engineering. His current research includes Highway Pavement Performance and Sustainability, Climate Change Impact Assessment on Transportation Infrastructure, Pavement Design, Civil Infrastructure Management, Highway Maintenance and Preservation, Infrastructure Resiliency, Cold Region Pavement Engineering and Highway De-icing and Anti-icing. Previously, Dr. Hossain served as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and as a postdoctoral researcher in pavement and transportation engineering research groups at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in USA and University of Waterloo. He holds a PhD in Transportation Engineering from University of Waterloo. He has supervised over 20 Master’s/PhD thesis projects in transportation infrastructure engineering and management areas and authored/co-authored over 100 technical publications. Dr. Hossain and his research were featured by many media and industrial organizations including CBC, The Vancouver Sun, The Telegram and The Asphalt Institute. His papers also received best paper awards and recognitions from several organizations including American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, ASCE Cold Region Engineering Journal. Dr. Hossain is a member of the standing committees of US Transportation Research Board (TRB) on pavement maintenance and binder for flexible pavements.