Arpad Horvath

Professor
Interests: Life-cycle assessment. Environmental assessment of civil infrastructure systems.


Mailing Address:
Engineering and Project Management Program
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
215B McLaughlin Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1712

Email:
horvath at ce.berkeley.edu

Phone:  (510) 642-7300
Fax:  (510) 643-8919


Biography

Arpad Horvath is a Professor in the Engineering and Project Management Program and in the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate 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 life-cycle assessment of civil infrastructure systems and other industries. His research has focused on the environmental implications of transportation systems, buildings, construction, water and wastewater systems, and various service industries, and life-cycle assessment modeling using hybrid methods, 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.

Education Awards
  • Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize "for original and outstanding contributions to the life-cycle environmental modeling and assessment of infrastructure systems." American Society of Civil Engineers (2008)
  • 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)
Appointments
  • Science Advisory Board, Environmental Engineering, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
Research

Areas of Research

Major Research Projects

Research Collaborators

  • Postdoctoral researchers and research engineers
    • Corinne Scown: "Life-cycle Assessment of Biofuels" (graduated in 2010)
    • Mikhail Chester: "Environmental Impacts of Passenger and Freight Transportation" (graduated in 2008)
    • Jennifer Stokes: "Life-cycle Assessment of Water Provision in California" (graduated in 2004)
     
  • Ph.D. graduates
    • Corinne Scown (2010)
    • Arman Shehabi (2009, co-advisor with William W Nazaroff)
    • Sebastien Humbert (2009)
    • Nakul Sathaye (2009, co-advisor with Samer Madanat)
    • Nicholas Santero (2009)
    • Mikhail Chester (2008)
    • Pedro Santos Vieira (2007)
    • Cristiano Facanha (2006)
    • Jennifer Stokes (2004)
    • Eric Masanet (2004)
    • Angela Guggemos (2003)
    • Sergio Pacca (2003)
    • Erasmia Kitou (2002)
     
  • Ph.D. students
    • Bret Strogen (2008-present)
    • Petek Gursel (2007-present)
    • Jeffrey Lidicker (2009-present, co-advisor with Samer Madanat)
    • Julia Griswold (2010-present, co-advisor with Samer Madanat)
    • Thomas Hendrickson (2011-present)

Publications

For a list of publications, click here.


Teaching
Conference Organization
  • Conference Chair, 6th Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology
    Berkeley, CA, June 2011
  • Program co-chair, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology
    Arlington, VA, May 2010
  • Program co-chair, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology
    Tempe, AZ, May 2009
  • Program co-chair, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology
    San Francisco, CA, May 2008
  • 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

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This page was last updated: May 11, 2011