Research Assistant
Since March 2020 Pamela Del Rosario works as a research assistant (Ph.D.) at the Institute for Sustainability in Civil Engineering (INaB). She graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering (B.Sc.) from INTEC (Santo Domingo Institute of Technology) in the Dominican Republic. After this, she gathered experience in the Dominican public sector working as a supervising engineer for a government institution focused on the execution of infrastructure projects. She later completed her studies in Environmental Engineering (M.Sc.) with a focus on Energy and Environment in Civil Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. Her master thesis centered on the application of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) within the LCA approaches of different Sustainability Rating Systems.
Research Topics:
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) in Road Construction, Sustainability in Civil Engineering
Phone: +49 241 80 22999
Mail: pamela.delrosario@inab.rwth-aachen.de
Room: 220
Publications:
Del Rosario, P.; Traverso, M.: Towards Sustainable Roads: A Systematic Review of Triple-Bottom-Line-Based Assessment Methods. Sustainability (2023). Published: November, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/su152115654 (IF: 3.9) 2023
Del Rosario, P.; Carreño, N.; Traverso, M.: Comparing the environmental performance of asphalt mixture alternatives – A case study with Hot Mix Asphalt and Warm Mix Asphalt applying LCA. Poster presentation at LCM Conference 2023, 05.09. – 08.09.2022 in Lille (France), 2023
Del Rosario, P; Traverso, M.: Environmental Impacts of Italian Wooden Windows – An assessment based on the approach of the PEF method. Award to best oral presentation at 10th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications (ICIEA), 04.04. – 06.04.2023 in Phuket (Thailand), 2023
Del Rosario, P.; Krekel, G.; Carreño, N.; Traverso, M.: Umweltleistung von Asphaltmischungen – Ein Vergleich von Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) und Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) mittels Ökobilanz. Conference paper and oral presentation at 3. Kolloquium Straßenbau in der Praxis, 07.02. – 08.02.2023 in Esslingen (Germany), 2023
Traverso, M.; Del Rosario, P.; Ostojic, S.: Nachhaltigkeitszertifizierungssysteme für Straßenverkehrsinfrastruktur – Eine Übersicht. Oral presentation at 3. Kolloquium Straßenbau in der Praxis, 07.02. – 08.02.2023 in Esslingen (Germany), 2023
Backes, J.G.; Schmidt, L.; Bielak, J.; Del Rosario, P.; Traverso, M.; Claßen, M.: Comparative Cradle-to-Grave Carbon Footprint of a CFRP-Grid Reinforced Concrete Façade Panel. Sustainability, 15, 11548 (2023). Published: July, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/su151511548 (IF: 3.889) 2022
Weniger, A.; Del Rosario, P.; Backes, J.G.; Traverso, M.: Consumer Behavior and Sustainability in the Construction Industry—Relevance of Sustainability-Related Criteria in Purchasing Decision. Buildings (2023), 13, 638. Published: February, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/buildings13030638 (IF:3.324) 2021
Del Rosario, P.; Backes, J.G.; Traverso, M.: Level(s) – Eine gemeinsame europäische Methode zur Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeitsleistung von Gebäuden. Bauingenieur (11) (2022), p. 385-392. Published: November, 2022. DOI: 10.37544/0005-6650-2022-11-67 (IF: 0.554) 2022
Backes, J.G.; Del Rosario, P.; Luthin, A.; Traverso, M.: Thinking the future – End-of-Life Life Cycle Assessment of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Oral presentation at the 15th Biennial International Conference on EcoBalance, 30.10.-02.11.2022 in Fukuoka (Japan), 2022.
Backes, J.G.; Del Rosario, P.; Luthin, A.; Traverso, M.: Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of End-of-Life Scenarios of Carbon-Reinforced Concrete: A Case Study. Applied Sciences 12, 9255 (2022). Published: September, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/app12189255(IF: 2.838) 2021
Backes, J.G.; Del Rosario, P.; Petrosa, D.; Traverso, M.; Hatzfeld, T.; Günther, E.: Building Sector Issues in about 100 Years: End-of-Life Scenarios of Carbon-Reinforced Concrete Presented in the Context of a Life Cycle Assessment, Focusing the Carbon Footprint. Processes, 10, (2022), 1791. Published: September, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/pr10091791 (IF: 3.352) 2022
Backes, J. G.; Del Rosario, P. Traverso M.: End – of – Life of Fiber Reinforced Concrete – Theoretical and practical options and Life Cycle Assessment. Oral presentation, XVI CONVEGNO DELL’ASSOCIAZIONE RETE ITALIANA LCA 2022, 22.-24.06.2022 in Palermo (Italy), 2022.
Del Rosario, P.; Palumbo, E.; Traverso, M.: Assessing Environmental Impacts of Construction Products: The Role of Embedded and Operational Impacts in the Environmental Performance of Wooden Windows. Oral presentation at the 10th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, 05.-08.10.2021 in Stuttgart (Germany, digital), 2021.
Del Rosario, P.; Palumbo, E.; Traverso, M.: Assessing Environmental Impacts of Construction Products: The Role of Embedded and Operational Impacts in the Environmental Performance of Wooden Windows. Oral presentation at the 10th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, 05.-08.09.2021 in Stuttgart (Germany, digital), 2021.
Del Rosario, P.; Palumbo, E; Traverso, M.: Environmental Product Declarations as Data Source for the Environmental Assessment of Buildings in the Context of Level(s) and DGNB: How Feasible Is Their Adoption? Sustainability, 13 (11), 6143 (2021). Published: May, 2021. DOI: 10.3390/su13116243. (IF: 3.889) 2022
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