| Academic degree: | Dr. |  | | Last name: | Horvath | | First name: | Arpad | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | University of California | | Department: | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | | Position: | Associate Professor | | Street, Number, POB: | McLaughlin Hall 215 | | Postal code, City: | 94720-1712 Berkeley | | State: | California | | Country: | USA | | Phone: | (510) 642-7300 | | Fax: | (510) 643-8919 | | E-mail address: | horvath@ce.berkeley.edu | | Url: | http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~horvath | | Curriculum vitae: | Dr. Arpad Horvath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing at UC Berkeley (http://cgdm.berkeley.edu).
He holds a PhD and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a 5-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.
Professor Horvath’s research focuses on life-cycle assessment and engineering, and environmental assessment and management of infrastructure systems.
To date, he has been the academic advisor of five Ph.D. students who have completed their studies and dissertations.
He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, four-time recipient of the AT&T Foundation Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship, and recipient of the NSF-Lucent Technologies Industrial Ecology Fellowship.
Prof. Horvath is Associate Editor of the Journal of Infrastructure Systems of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and secretary of ASCE’s Committee on Social and Environmental Concerns in Construction.
He was Conference Co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment in 2000 and 2001, Program Co-chair in 1999, and organizer of numerous other workshops and conference sessions. | | Areas of interest: | | | Articles: | 13 LCA (2) 155-165 (2008), External Air Pollution Costs of Telework (11 pp)
12 LCA (6) 365-372 (2007), A Regional Version of a US Economic Input-Output Life-Cycle Assessment Model (8 pp)
12 LCA_Special (1) 46-57 (2007), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). A critical evaluation by LCA and recommendations for improvement (12 pp)
11 LCA (4) 229-239 (2006), Environmental Assessment of Freight Transportation in the U.S. (11 pp)
11 LCA (5) 335-343 (2006), Life Cycle Energy Assessment of Alternative Water Supply Systems (9 pp)
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