Sustainable Infrastructure Development Approach in the Construction and Maintenance of Road and Bridge Sector of Nepal

Abstract

Sustainable infrastructure development approach is the most important aspect for the development of infrastructure. This study emphasized to promote sustainability for the overall development and analyze this aspect in the perspective of rural road bridge sector of Nepal. This approach relates to the environmental, socioeconomic, ownership, livelihood and sustainability aspects of the project area. Infrastructure development is very easy, but the sustainability after development is the key issue which has to address by the infrastructure projects. Sustainable infrastructure development is one of the major components to compete sustainability. Many sub-components to ensure sustainability identified and tested in this study and presented data and analysis accordingly.