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

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.

• 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

• 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)

• Science Advisory Board, Environmental Engineering, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

Areas of Research

• Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems
• Life-cycle assessment
• Supply-chain environmental effects of products, processes and services
• 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 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)

For a list of publications, click here.

• Fall 2011 and Spring 2012
• CE 11 Engineered Systems and Sustainability
• CE 166 Construction Engineering
• CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment
• CE 292A Technologies for Sustainable Societies (with Alice Agogino)
 
• Courses taught at UC Berkeley since 1999
• CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment (2000-2011)
• 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 1999-2011)
• 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

• 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

• Engineering and Project Management at UCB