Greenroads: development and application of a sustainability rating system for roadways
Greenroads is a performance metric for quantifying sustainable practices associated with roadway design and construction. Sustainability is defined as having seven key components: ecology, equity, economy, extent, expectations, experience and exposure. By Greenroads standards, a sustainable roadway project is one that carefully an overtly integrates these components into the design and construction process to a substantially higher standard than current common practice. Project-level sustainability performance can be assessed by meeting all project requirements and any number of voluntary credit points. Greenroads also sets "achievement levels" at different point values in order to provide recommended scoring levels. Greenroads assumes compliance with current United States regulations and design standards, but with a few changes to project requirements can be made into an international standard. Greenroads can be adopted in a number of ways, however the most likely are: 1. as an external standard; 2. as a project accounting standard; 3. as a sustainable solutions clearinghouse; and 4. as a tool for competitive advantage for both private industry and public agencies.
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Authors:
- Muench, S
- Andersen, J
- Bevan, T
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- Publication Date: 2010-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 5p (oral presentations)
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Serial:
- Issue Number: 30
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction management; Environment; Highway design; Project management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Planning and Environment; Road design and management
- ATRI Terms: Construction management; Environment; Project management; Road design
- ITRD Terms: 8122: USA
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01382617
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 22 2012 1:24PM