EDGAR
Reduction of energy consumption and emission of CO2 is a major challenge and responsibility for the European road construction industry. Today, there is a wide range of new materials and technologies being developed with a focus on energy efficiency. Road administrations play a major role in the advancement of new green technologies and materials, as they can favour the most sustainable solutions in their procurement criteria and procedures. In order to do this, they need to have at their disposal correct information, data, assessment tools and methodologies to decide which innovative technologies offer the most sustainable solutions.
Main aims for the project
- Select appropriate sustainability criteria/rules
- Collect available data on all sustainability aspects for new materials and technologies and "green bituminous mixtures", and synthesize it in a summary report;
- Propose a refined, quick and qualitative classification system for the assessment of the recyclability of the "green asphalt" when it will have reached the end-of-life;
- Select the best tools for the quantitative evaluation of sustainability;
- Provide a methodology for assessing any emerging material or technology and to determine its overall sustainability, utilising these appropriate tools, considering also the durability of the bituminous mixtures.
- Demonstrate this methodology for a number of selected test cases.
This research is carried out as part of the CEDR Transnational Road Research Programme Call 2013.
“If you run out of ideas, follow the
road; you'll get there”
- Edgar Allan Poe
Publications
Energy efficient materials and technologies and their impact on sustainability (D1-1)
Recommended Product Category Rules (PCRs) for bituminous materials and technologies (D2-1)
Guidance document on the sustainability assessment of bituminous materials and technologies (D2-2)
Demonstration of the methodology to assess sustainability (D3-1)
Timetable for the project
April 2014
Project kick-off meeting at TRA 2014, Paris
February 2015
WP 1 Completed
October 2015
WP 2 Completed
April 2016
Presentation of project results at TRA 2016, Warsaw
June 2016
Presentation of project results at Eurasphalt Congress, Prague
October 2016
WP 3 Completed
November 2016
End of project (Final report submission)
10 November 2016
End of Program workshop at BRRC, Belgium