Associate Professor
Interests: Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, Life-cycle assessment, Environmentally-conscious construction and infrastructure management

Arpad Horvath is an Associate Professor in the Engineering and Project Management Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering major, Construction Engineering and Management minor) from the Technical University of Budapest (Hungary).

His research interests are in developing methods and tools for environmental and economic analysis of civil infrastructure systems, primarily for the construction industry and the built environment. His research has focused on the environmental implications of the construction, electronics and various service industries, life-cycle assessment modeling using environmentally augmented economic input-output analysis, and environmental performance measurement.

Arpad Horvath is the director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing (CGDM), and Associate Editor of the ASCE's Journal of Infrastructure Systems.

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997
• M.S., Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995
• Dipl. Eng., Civil Engineering (5-year degree), Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 1993

• Laudise Prize for outstanding achievements in industrial ecology, International Society for Industrial Ecology (2005)
• AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship (2004)
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2001)
• AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship (2001)
• AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship (2000)
• Certificate of Appreciation "in recognition of a substantial contribution to the 1999 SAE International Congress & Exposition" (1999)
• NSF/Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology Fellowship (with C. Hendrickson and L. Lave) (1998-2000)
• AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship (1998)
• Soros Foundation Supplementary Grant (1993)

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• International Society for Industrial Ecology

Areas of Research

• Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems
• Life-cycle assessment
• Environmentally-conscious construction and infrastructure management
• Supply-chain economic and environmental effects
• Environmental implications of the service industries
• Environmental implications of the Internet economy: Network for Energy, Environment, Efficiency, and the Information Economy (N4E)
• Environmental performance measurement

Major Research Projects

• Life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of asphalt and concrete pavements - learn more about PaLATE
• Environmental implications of on-site construction processes
• Environmental implications of construction materials and designs
• Environmental and economic implications of telework - learn more about the telework tool
• Hybrid life-cycle assessment models
• Economic input-output analysis-based life-cycle assessment (EIO-LCA)
• Pollution prevention opportunities for extended producer environmental responsibility in the construction industry
• Environmentally and economically beneficial substitution of services for products

Research Collaborators

• Postdoctoral researchers
• Erasmia Kitou: "Air Pollution Assessment of Telework: A Design of a Decision-Support Tool" (graduated in May 2002)
• Angela Guggemos: "Environmental Impacts of Onsite Construction Processes: Focus on Structural Frames" (graduated in May 2003)
• Sergio Pacca: "Global Warming Effect Applied to Electricity Generation Technologies" (Energy and Resources Group; graduated in May 2003, co-advisor with R. Norgaard)
• Eric Masanet: "Environmental and Economic Take-back Planning for Plastics from End-of-Life Computers" (Mechanical Engineering; graduated in May 2004, co-advisor with D. Dornfeld)
• Jennifer Stokes: "Life-cycle Assessment of Water Provision in California" (graduated in May 2004)
• Cristiano Facanha: "Life-cycle Air Emissions Inventory of Freight Transportation in the United States" (graduated in August 2006)
 
• Ph.D. graduates
• Pedro Santos Vieira (2003 – present)
• Sebastien Humbert (2004 – present)
• Mikhail Chester (2004 – present)
• Arman Shehabi (2004 – present, co-advisor with William W Nazaroff)
• Nakul Sathaye (2005 – present, co-advisor with Samer Madanat)
• Nicholas Santero (2006 – present)
 
• Ph.D. students
• Pedro Santos Vieira (2003 – present)
• Sebastien Humbert (2004 – present)
• Mikhail Chester (2004 – present)
• Arman Shehabi (2004 – present, co-advisor with William W Nazaroff)
• Nakul Sathaye (2005 – present, co-advisor with Samer Madanat)
• Nicholas Santero (2006 – present)

For a list of publications, click here.

• Fall 2006
• CE 166 Construction Engineering
• CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment
• CE 293A / ER C293A Technology and Sustainability (with Ashok Gadgil)
 
• Courses taught at UC Berkeley since 1999
• CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment (Spring 2000 – 2006, Fall 2006)
• CE 292A Technologies for Sustainable Societies (with William Nazaroff and Ashok Gadgil) (Fall 2003, 2004)
• CE 293A / ER C293A Technology and Sustainability (with William Nazaroff and Ashok Gadgil) (Fall 2005, 2006)
• CE 298-009 Sustainability and the Built Environment (Fall 2001, 2002)
• CE 166 Construction Engineering (Fall 1999 – 2006)
• CE 167 Engineering Project Management (Spring 2001, 2002, 2003, Fall 2001)
• CE 169A Web-based Systems for Engineering and Management (Fall 2000, 2001, 2004)
• CE 169B Database Systems for Engineering and Management (Fall 2000, 2001, 2004)
 
• Courses taught at Carnegie Mellon University, 1997 - 1999
• 12-611 Project Management for Construction (Fall 1997, 1998)
• 12-710 Advanced Techniques for Project Management (Spring 1998, 1999)
 
• Continuing Education Teaching: UC Extension
• Life-Cycle Assessment and Engineering

• Program co-chair, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  Orlando, FL, May 2007
• Program co-chair, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  San Francisco, CA, May 2006
• Conference co-chair, 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  Denver, CO, May 2001
• Conference co-chair, 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  San Francisco, CA, May 2000
• Co-director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop
  Budapest, Hungary, May 2000
• Program co-chair, 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment
  Danvers, MA, May 1999

• Engineering and Project Management at UCB