Mohamed Matar Ali Matar  <br/><br/>
A systems model for evaluating sustainability of civil infrastructure projects /  
 نموذج لدراسة وتقييم استدامة مشروعات المرافق المدنية باستخدام هندسة النظم  
Mohamed Matar Ali Matar ; Supervised ; Moheeb Elsaid Ibrahim , Hesham Maged Osman , Maged Ezzat Georgy 
 - Cairo :   Mohamed Matar Ali Matar  ,   2016 
 - 219 P. :   facsimiles ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering 
<br/><br/> Sustainability has become an ultimate requirement for civil engineering projects,  including infrastructure projects. This research introduces a systems model for  evaluating sustainability of infrastructure projects. The model captures the  environmental system, the infrastructure product, and the construction process as  interacting systems that fundamentally exchange matter, energy and information.  System flows are captured to evaluate their environmental impacts. The model is  developed using the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) in a general case, then  applied to water pipeline projects as an example of infrastructure projects, covering  the water pipeline as an infrastructure product, and the three construction techniques  of open cut trenching, microtunneling, and Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD). A  detailed case study of the New Cairo water pipeline project is provided  
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Infrastructure projects  Microtunneling  Sustainability