Review of the Methods Required in Measuring the Sustainability of Infrastructure Projects

Abstract

Rapid growth in an area is indicated by the increasing of the population proportion, thereby the need of good infrastructure increases. The sustainable infrastructure is a crucial part of the nation development with considering the economic, social, and environment aspects and works to balance all these three aspects. Therefore, the rapid development is expected to contribute in the increasing of economic growth and social welfare without damaging the surrounding environment. Recently, a lot of researches has been discussing about sustainable infrastructure using various methods, it is important to conduct a study of what methods are used in previous researches. By knowing these various methods, it is expected to provide method recommendations for further research in the field of sustainable infrastructure. This paper aims to find out what methods are used to determine the level of sustainability in infrastructure projects. The method used is the literature review of 20 relevant international papers from year of 2007 to 2019. Based on previous researches, the result of this study indicates that there are variety of methods used to determine the level of infrastructure projects’ sustainability. This paper shows AHP is the most widely used because it has some advantages.