Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe

Jim�nez del Barco Carri�n, A.; Parry, Tony; Keijzer, Elisabeth; Kalman, Bj�rn; Mantalovas, Konstantinos; Butt, Ali A.; Harvey, John T.; Lo Presti, Davide

Abstract

Pavement Life Cycle Management is a 2-year international project aiming at supporting European National Road Authorities (NRAs) to introduce sustainability in their practices by providing training on Life Cycle techniques and a user-friendly package to support their widespread implementation. The first task in Pavement Life Cycle Management (Pave-mentLCM) project is the creation of a Sustainability Assessment (SA) framework that complies with EN15643-5 and consequently include the three pillars of sustainability, use a life cycle ap-proach and use quantifiable sustainability performance indicators. This paper presents the first steps towards the creation of the framework which includes the following steps: 1) review of the available Product Category Rules (PCRs) related to asphalt mixtures and pavement activi-ties; 2) definition of the object of the assessment; 3) review and survey of NRAs practices of the main research efforts in Europe towards the definition of sustainability performance indicators.

Citation

Jiménez del Barco Carrión, A., Parry, T., Keijzer, E., Kalman, B., Mantalovas, K., Butt, A. A., …Lo Presti, D. (2020). Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe. In Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 (LCA 2020, Sacramento, CA, 3-6 June 2020) (142-152). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003092278-15

• Publication Date: Jul 2, 2020
• Deposit Date: Sep 2, 2020
• Pages: 142-152
• Book Title: Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 (LCA 2020, Sacramento, CA, 3-6 June 2020)
• ISBN: 9781003092278
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003092278-15
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4873679
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003092278/chapters/10.1201/9781003092278-15
• Additional Information: Preprint on ResearchGate; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342641338_Pavement_life_cycle_management_Towards_a_sustainability_assessment_framework_in_Europe