Tuesday, April 16, 2024

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Hall 8A-2 (Simmonscourt)

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The construction of transport infrastructure is a significant contributor to global carbon emissions due to the persistent use of carbon intensive materials. There is an urgent need to address the frameworks that continue to reward these materials, and this requires new tools to support this change. Critical questions that remain open include: • How do we evaluate new materials with reduced embodied carbon? The standard performance frameworks are often founded on traditional high-carbon materials and in some cases act as a barrier to change. • How do we decide the appropriate framework for evaluating transport infrastructure projects? Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool that can help make informed choices, but at what scale should it be applied? LCA can help to identify the potential for circularity and decarbonisation of transport infrastructure, by analysing the material flows and environmental impacts at different scales, from the individual asset to the network or system level. • Key to any change is reliable information, and data management is a major challenge due to the fragmented nature of the construction sector internationally. How can we make robust decisions on construction contracts, and be confident in the data in which we are working with? How do we do this in a way that supports the wide array of SMEs that operate in the construction sector? Speakers: Patrick McKenna (Missouri DoT) Kyle Moore (Department of Transport, Ireland_ Miltiadis Kontogeorgos (RINA) Erisa Myrtja (Ecocem Global) Moderators: Ciaran McNally (UCD) & Jerome DeFrance (ECTP)

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