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Title

Greening procurement: a research agenda for optimizing mass-haul during linear infrastructure construction

Author(s)

Kenley, Russell;  Harfield, Toby

Abstract

Infrastructure construction generates a significant amount of global economic activity. Much of infrastructure construction is government sponsored through a procurement process. Currently the ideals of sustainability are not embedded in these processes because methodologies to measure green house gas emissions produced during infrastructure construction are yet to be developed. Both government road and transport authorities and contractors require these tools. As a way forward, an agenda for preliminary research focusing on a special case is suggested. As mass-haul is known to produce high levels of greenhouse gas emission it would make an excellent construction activity to explore. If it is possible to optimize the amount of handling and movement of soil, aggregates, and rock around projects, then it is possible that green house gas emissions could also be measure and optimized. Therefore a three-pronged research agenda is proposed, centered on mass-haul activity, in order to develop prototype methodologies and tools for green procurement processes that contribute to sustainability of the built environment.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Source

Proceedings of 'Construction challenges in the new decade', the 6th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITV-VI), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 05-07 July 2011 / Syed M. Ahmed, Haminah Adnan, Kamalesh Panthi, Salman Azhar, Roshana Takim, and Gazan Bozai (eds.), pp. 235-240

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning;  120299 Building not elsewhere classified;  010303 Optimisation

Keyword(s)

Construction procurement;  Linear infrastructure;  Optimising mass-haul;  Sustainability methodologies

Publisher

Construction In the Twenty First Century

ISBN

1884342025

Publisher URL

http://www.citc.ecu.edu/

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 by CITC-VI, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. All rights reserved. Published version reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.

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