The 9th International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2025) to be hosted at RMIT, Melbourne from 15 – 19 July 2025.
Topics and Themes of IALCCE2025:
1. Lifecycle Carbon Emission Metrics
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Methods of measuring carbon emissions for civil engineering
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Carbon emission in whole life of infrastructure
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Carbon emission in each stage of lifecycle
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Carbon neutrality for civil engineering works
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Carbon sequestration techniques
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Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
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Embodied and operational carbons
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Life cycle inventory databases of carbon emissions
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Carbon emission benchmarks
2. Lifecycle Design for Structures and Infrastructure
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Lifecycle based methods for planning and decision making
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Design for safety
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Design for longevity
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Design for resilience
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Design for disassembly
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Circular economy in LCA
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Service life extension techniques
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Low carbon materials
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Prefabrication techniques
3. Lifecycle Assessment of Civil Infrastructure
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Methods for structural reliability
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Time-dependent reliability methods
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Uncertainty analysis and modelling
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Assessment of real world structures
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Material and structural deterioration
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Assessment of severe natural disasters
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Assessment of various failure modes
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Effects of climate change
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Risk acceptance criteria
4. Lifecycle Management of Civil Infrastructure
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Field testing and proof loading
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Structural health monitoring
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Inspection and evaluation
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Maintenance strategies
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Rehabilitation techniques
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Strengthening and repairs
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Human factors in lifecycle civil engineering
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Whole life care of infrastructure
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Risk management of civil engineering works
5. Lifecycle Optimisation of Civil Infrastructure
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Mathematical optimization
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Structural optimisation
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Optimization techniques for decision making
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Optimisation of construction processes
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Optimisation of end-of-life options
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Lifecycle costing models
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Risk, carbon emission and cost optimisation
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Evolutionary procedures
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Mutil-objective optimization
6. Lifecycle Digital Tools for Civil Engineering
- Digital twins for performance monitoring
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BIM, AR/VR for design and construction
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Artificial intelligence methods
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Soft-computing methods
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Machine learning and its applications in LCA
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Sensor technology
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Internet of things techniques
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Big data and cloud computing techniques
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Robotic and aviation-based techniques