The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub) WEBINAR SERIES offers information of general interest to members of the building, paving, and construction communities, as well as to educators, students, journalists, and law and policy-makers interested in the environmental and economic impacts of decision-making concerning infrastructure.
The webinar “Strategies for Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the U.S. Pavement Network” was presented early August and is now available on demand! As energy consumption-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and buildings decline, embodied emissions associated with construction materials will represent a larger portion of pavement life cycle emissions. In response to a global call to reduce GHG emissions (especially embodied emissions), the concrete industry has set out ambitious goals to move towards carbon neutrality without compromising the performance of pavements.
Presented by Hessam AzariJafari, Postdoctoral Associate-CSHub, this webinar will identify & discuss both existing practices & emerging technologies for achieving low-carbon concrete mixtures in the context of the U.S. pavement network.
This presentation includes:
• Practices to reduce, replace, and offset impacts
• Implications of the strategies on the embodied emissions of asphalt pavements
• To investigate realistic approaches to achieve carbon-neutral pavements, CSHub makes use of a pavement-management-system model to simulate the rate at which pavements are maintained, rehabilitated, and replaced
• Information from the model is used to estimate both material flows (that lead to embodied emissions) and operational impacts associated with all pavement segments in the network
• Life cycle GHG savings from the local adoption of each low-carbon strategy until 2050
• Outcomes of this research provide a broad, realistic picture of pavement decarbonization by investigating a high-resolution track of demand for materials in the road network while considering the availability of low-carbon strategies and their respective costs
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