Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Engineering and Technology Management
Brent, AC
BEng (Stell) MSc (Chalmers) PhD(Pret) - Associate Professor
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3929
Fax number: 012 362 5307
E-mail address: alan.brent@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Life Cycle Engineering
Scope and structure of engineering management
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Labuschagne C, Brent AC, Claasen SJ: 2005. Environmental and social impact considerations for sustainable project life cycle management in the process industry. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 12 (1), pp 38-54.
Brent AC, Heuberger R, Manzini D: 2005. Evaluating projects that are potentially eligible for clean development mechanism (CDM) funding in the South African context: A case study to establish weighting values for sustainable development criteria. Environment and Development Economics, 10, pp 631-649.
Schuman CA, Brent AC: 2005. Asset life cycle management: Towards improving physical asset performance in the process industry. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 25 (6) / Jun, pp 566-579.
Labuschagne C, Brent AC: 2005. Sustainable project life cycle management: The need to integrate life cycles in the manufacturing sector. International Journal of Project Management, 23 (2) / Feb, pp 159-168.
Labuschagne C, Brent AC, Van Erck RPG: 2005. Assessing the sustainability performances of industries. Journal of Cleaner Production, 13 (4) / Mar, pp 373-385.
Brent AC, Visser JK: 2005. An environmental performance resource impact indicator for life cycle management in the manufacturing industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 13 (6) / May, pp 557-565.
Jansen J, Brent AC: 2005. Reducing accidents in the mining industry - an integrated approach. Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 105 (10) / Nov, pp 719-725.
Brent AC: 2005. Integrating LCIA and LCM: Evaluating environmental performances for supply chain management in South Africa. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 16 (2), pp 130-142.
Brent AC: 2005. The application of life cycle management in decision making for sustainable development at government and corporate level: the integration of project, asset and product life cycles. Progress in Industrial Ecology - an International Journal, 2 (2), pp 223-235.
Brent AC, Labuschagne C: 2005. A review of operational research and mathematical methods for environmental management applications in industry. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 16 (1) / May, pp 55-67.
Kalenga CE, Brent AC: 2005. Strategic change in procurement orientatin in the South African automotive industry: A case stuey. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 16 (2) / Nov, pp 43-56.
Brent AC, Steinhilper R: 2005. Opportunities for remanufactured electronic products from developing countries: Hypotheses to characterise the perspectives of a global remanufacturing industry. Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers/ Handelinge van die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut van Elektriese Ingenieurs, 96 (3) / Sep, pp 196-201.
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Brent AC, Labuschagne C: 2005. Sustainable life cycle management: A case study in the process industry to develop a calculation procedure for social indicators following conventional LCIA methods. In Fourth Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference, Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS), pp CD (1-11).
Brent AC, Van Erck RPG, Labuschagne C: 2005. A sustainability cost accounting methodology for technology management in the process industry. In IAMOT - 14th International Conference on Management of Technology Proceedings, Elsevier, pp CD (1-33).
Brent AC, Mulder J: 2005. Selection of sustainable rural agriculture projects in South Africa: Case studies in the landcare programme. In LCM 2005 Innovation by Life Cycle Management, University Autonoma de Barcelona, pp 437-442.
Brent AC, Labuschagne C: 2005. Sustainable life cycle management: Development of social indicators for technology management in the process industry in South Africa. In Proceedings of PICMET '05 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) See *e-mail, pp CD (1-15).
Botha A, Brent AC: 2005. Optimising maintenance strategies in the process industry to maximise the environmental performance of assets. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Maintenance Societies (ICOMS 2005), MESA - Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia, pp 1-8.
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