What is the role of BREEAM in sustainable metal bridge construction?
What is the role of BREEAM in sustainable metal bridge construction? BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) is a sustainability assessment framework for buildings and infrastructure. As sustainability becomes a central consideration in all aspects of construction, frameworks such...
What is BREEAM?
What is BREEAM? The construction and infrastructure businesses are increasingly defined by sustainability as a major concern and a potential regulatory consideration. As such, infrastructure planning and design is becoming driven by questions of how to assess and measure exactly...
Adopting Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as an industry norm
Adopting Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as an industry norm As measuring and reporting on environmental performance and impact becomes the norm, means for doing so have evolved to become harmonized. An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardized type III...
Infrastructure made smarter and more sustainable
Infrastructure made smarter and more sustainable Much of what makes up society’s Infrastructure is built and functions for decades without most people giving it much of a thought. It facilitating carrying people and transport from place to place with things...
Supporting sustainable infrastructure through the European Green Deal
Supporting sustainable infrastructure through the European Green Deal Infrastructure and its construction is an integral part of a functioning society. But in a society looking for ways to support sustainability, the “built” environment drives resource use, generates waste, uses energy...
What is the EU Taxonomy?
What is the EU Taxonomy? …and what is the EU Taxonomy’s impact on infrastructure construction in civil engineering? The EU Taxonomy is a comprehensive classification system that classifies and defines what can be called “sustainable activities”. The framework’s primary objective...
