Net Zero implementation on transportation projects
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Sachin
(WS Atkins India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, India)
Ashwinikumar Thakur (WS Atkins India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, India) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Engineering for Sustainable Development, New Delhi, India, 20-22 September 2023 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress New Delhi 2023 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 985-990 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 6 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/newdelhi.2023.0985 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Net zero has been a hot topic in discussion in the current timeline. Since the effect of global warming impacting the coastal zones, lot of attention have been garnered by Net Zero. The carbon emission has increased significantly from 8 billion tons CO2 per year to almost 40 billion tons CO2 per year. Global atmospheric carbon concentration has gone up rapidly from 290 PPM to 370 PPM in 2000 and finally up to 413 PPM in 2020. The rate of CO2 concentration has increased from 0.61 PPM per year to 2.15 PPM per year now. The current global warming is alarming at the rate of 0.18 °C per year which has caused significant reduction of polar ice and increase in sea levels. Atkins - Member of SNC Lavalin group have developed an extensive system to reduce carbon footprint and to approach Net Zero in transportation and infrastructure projects based on PAS 2080 framework. It starts with building nothing to build efficient. A lot of our work focuses on capacity enhancement of existing structures where we have been able to reduce material and labour use to make it future proof and take us towards the Net Zero goal. This paper will discuss few case studies on transportation projects where carbon reduction has been achieved. |
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| Keywords: |
bridges transportation rails assessment PAS 2080: rehabilitation
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