Reducing the climate impacts of highways construction materials through exploring their physical and geotechnical properties and applications

通过探索公路建筑材料的物理和岩土特性及应用，减少其对气候的影响

• 批准号: 2700823
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2700823
• 关键词: Reducing; climate; impacts; highways; construction

It is self-evident that it issustainable practice, both commercially and environmentally, for any civil engineering project to minimise the required quantities of materials and to export minimal waste, whilst still achieving their relevant development objectives. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Governmental Statististical Service (2021) state that 62% of total UK waste is generated from construction, demolition and excavation. Much-needed improvements to material resources and waste management can be achieved using principles associated with a circular economy (CE), a well-recognised concept which is underpinned by a transition to renewable energy and materials. Inspired by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (n.d.), the definition adopted by National Highways et al. (2016) is "an industrial economy that is restorative by design, and which aims to keep products, components and materials at their highest utility and value at all times". In the same National Highways report it is recognised that by implementing CE opportunities significant reductions in cost, waste and carbon can be achieved. Hence developments in our ability to achieve CE principles contribute towards the National Highways goal of delivering net zero maintenance and construction by 2040.

不言而喻的是，无论是在商业上还是在环境上，任何土木工程项目都可以降低所需的材料数量并导出最小的浪费，同时仍然实现其相关的开发目标。环境，食品和农村事务部以及政府统计局（2021）指出，英国总废物的62％是由于建筑，拆除和发掘而产生的。可以使用与循环经济相关的原则（CE）来实现急需的物质资源和废物管理的改进，这是一个公认的概念，这是由于过渡到可再生能源和材料的过渡所支持的。受国家高速公路等人所采用的定义，受到艾伦·麦克阿瑟基金会（N.D.）的启发。 （2016年）是“通过设计恢复的工业经济，旨在始终将产品，组件和材料保持在其最高的效用和价值上”。在同一条国家公路报告中，人们认识到，通过实施CE机会可以大大降低成本，浪费和碳。因此，我们实现CE原则的能力的发展有助于到2040年到达零维护和建设的国家公路目标。