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Way Forward for Construction Industry with Active Participation in Carbon Footprint Reduction for Sustainable Development using Geosynthetics

 Way Forward for Construction Industry with Active Participation in Carbon Footprint Reduction for Sustainable Development using Geosynthetics
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018, published in , pp. 882-888
DOI: 10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0882
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Building green and sustainable for buildings and cities have become an important aspect to safe guard the environment and future generation. Opening up new land for townships with road and railway ...
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Author(s): (Nexus EC Sdn. Bhd., Puchong, Selangor)
(Nexus EC Sdn. Bhd., Puchong, Selangor)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018
Published in:
Page(s): 882-888 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 882-888
Total no. of pages: 7
DOI: 10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0882
Abstract:

Building green and sustainable for buildings and cities have become an important aspect to safe guard the environment and future generation. Opening up new land for townships with road and railway networks are vital for the nation along with government commitment for development and well being of ever growing population. In the past, mother nature’s well balanced ecosystem were compromised due to rapid industrialization and world wide development. Today, we are facing serious environmental deterioration with rising global temperature, sea levels, lost of rain forest, natural resources, extinction of species all at unprecedented levels, never seen before world wide. As we are heading towards uncharted environmental impact with mega scale of flooding, rainfall, typhoon wind velocity, prolong drought, early seasonal changes, it has become an immediate need for every citizen of the planet to safe guard the environment by reducing their carbon footprint. As the first step for carbon foot print reduction, we need to reduce carbon consumption in every aspect of our daily life starting with the building that houses us, cities that we works and live in and reduction in construction industries especially areas related to infrastructure and highway construction works. This paper will discuss the usage of alternative materials in construction industry, which can reduce carbon footprints and at the same time blend with the nature. New changes with adoption of technologies can be in cooperated as Green Highway and Infrastructure Index (GHII).

Keywords:
carbon footprint Geosynthetics Green House Gases Green Highway and Infrastructure Index (GHII)