Evaluation of the Position of Roller Compacted Concrete as a Green Material Based on Sustainable Development Criteria (Economic, Social and Environmental)

Subject Areas : Journal of Building Information Modeling

Mohammadjavad Hosseinzadeh ¹ , Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi ^{2 *} , Davood shirazizadeshamshiri ³ , Iman soltani ⁴

1 - MSc., Departement of civil engineering,shi.c., Islamic azad University, shiraz, iran
2 - MSc., Departement of civil engineering,shi.c., Islamic azad University, shiraz, iran
3 - MSc., Departement of civil engineering,shi.c., Islamic azad University, shiraz, iran
4 - PhD Candidate., Departement of civil engineering,shi.c., Islamic azad University, shiraz, iran

Received: 2025-07-26 Accepted : 2025-09-06 Published : 2025-10-08

Keywords: RCC, Sustainable development, SWARA method, Asphalt pavement, Green materials,

Abstract :

Asphalt pavements are associated with severe environmental problems including energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Roller compacted concrete (RCC) is one of the recently developed materials in pavement construction and can be used as an apt alternative for asphalt to tackle the mentioned problems. However, previous studies did not quantitatively calculate three pillars of sustainable development on RCC simultaneously. This study targets to investigate the sustainable development impacts of RCC and asphalt pavements to show that positive economic, social and environmental effects of RCC pavements are much higher than asphalt pavements. Questionnaire was prepared and green materials factors were identified through experts and then were ranked in order to select the most important factors for green materials in RCC, including ‘durable pavement’, ‘useful life’, ‘life cycle cost’, ‘reuse of pavement’ and ‘fossil fuels reduction’ with scores of 0.495, 0.247, 0.06, 0.12 and 0.03, respectively, using Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) method. A matrix calculated through Excel was used to analyze sustainable development criteria. Also, Green Road Standard was used for both RCC and asphalt pavements. Finally, economic, social and environmental comparisons of concrete and asphalt pavements show 2 negative effects, 15 positive effects and 4.52 effects average for concrete pavement, and 8 negative effects, 10 positive effects and -0.28 effects average for asphalt pavement. The obtained results of this study prove the superiority of RCC for using in road construction projects in terms of sustainability.

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