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The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub is a dedicated interdisciplinary team of researchers from several departments across MIT working on concrete and infrastructure science, engineering, and economics since 2009.

The MIT CSHub brings together leaders from academia, industry, and government to develop breakthroughs using a holistic approach that will achieve durable and sustainable homes, buildings, and infrastructure in ever more demanding environments.

To achieve sustainable, long-term solutions, engineers, designers, and policy makers must account for all economic and environmental costs over the lifetime of a project and need the right tools and approaches to do so.

Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) are methodologies that allow environmental and economic impacts to be studied and quantified. Click the image to the left to download an info sheet which discusses life cycle thinking, LCCA and LCA for pavements.

Natural disasters cause billions of dollars of damage to infrastructure every year. Factoring resilience into building design can help reduce lifetime repair and maintenance costs in hazard-prone areas and allow communities to recover more quickly from a disaster.

Click the image to the left to download an information sheet which discusses building resilience and a CSHub-developed life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) approach that offers building designers and owners a way to make better risk-informed decisions up front.

Explore MIT CDSHub Infographics for enlightening views of concrete sustainability derived from study.