Materials role in pavement design and its impacts in LCA of road construction and use phase

Abstract Connecting real material databases at a very early stage enables to measure, predict and support informed decision making based on energy carbon performance in the infrastructure sector. While, past twenty years, significant increase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research for road construction projects was seen, data collection management still remains one main challenges. Having capability combine planning, execution, maintenance recycling platform greatly contributes reducing effort assessment execution time makings. ORIS is first web-based enabling more sustainable with optimised solutions, bringing an different pavement design options within geolocalised sourcing environment. Based embedding local catalogues its automatized data-driven approach, exhaustive LCA analysis performed whole life cycle conformed standards. A case study United Kingdom demonstrated cost contribution use phase modules (30-40% total) potential 56% reduction global warming indicator from product 24% total saving 720 k£.