Sustainability Requirements of Concrete Structures

Sustainability of the cement and concrete industries

Sustainability is important to the well-being of our planet, continued growth of a society, and human development. Concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials in the world. However, the production of portland cement, an essential constituent of concrete, leads to the release of significant amount of CO2, a greenhouse gas (GHG); production of one ton of portland cement produce...

Requirements specification using concrete scenarios

The precision of formal specifications allows us to prove program correctness. Even if formal methods are not used throughout the software project, formalisation improves our understanding of the problem. Formal specifications are amenable to automated analysis and consistency checking. However using them is challenging. Customers do not understand formal notations. Specifiers have difficulty t...

Engineering Requirements for Social Sustainability

Software is no longer a passive tool, but is an active agent in shaping modern communities. Yet, to date, software engineers do not endeavour to explicitly state requirements which a software system must fulfil if it is to positively contribute to the well-being (that is the social sustainability) of its user community. This paper presents a proposal on how to bridge this gap. It notes that soc...

Sustainability and Requirements: A Manifesto

WRITE A MANIFESTO? If you have something you want to shout out to the world and have heard. If you want to change something in the world but need many people to join you because otherwise there won’t be much impact. If you feel like starting a conversation and getting ideas into people’s minds for them to improve their output in some form or another. The idea I want to get into people’s minds i...

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