Better Roads vs Sustainable Roads: A False Choice? (Alice Yiu @ IRF) - Sustainable Infrastructure #3 скачать в хорошем качестве

Better Roads vs Sustainable Roads: A False Choice? (Alice Yiu @ IRF) - Sustainable Infrastructure #3

To receive our latest insights and updates via email: https://www.oris-connect.com/en/newsl... To learn more about ORIS: https://www.oris-connect.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬ Most road agencies say they want greener infrastructure. But when project appraisals still reward the lowest upfront cost and procurement rules leave no room for innovation, how does anything actually change? Alice Yiu has spent over a decade trying to answer that question — first at the SLOCAT Partnership, representing transport at UN Climate Summits, and now as Head of Advocacy and Outreach at the International Road Federation, mobilising the global road community across 118 countries. This isn't a conversation about climate ambition. It's about the machinery that sits between a global agreement and an actual road project: nationally determined contributions, multilateral development bank conditionality, procurement frameworks, and the standards engineers follow on day one of a design. Alice maps that full chain and identifies exactly where it breaks down. Her sharpest insight: green roads don't lose at construction. They lose at appraisal, before procurement even begins, because lifecycle carbon carries no mandatory weight in how most road projects are evaluated today. Fix that one rule, and the designs change immediately. Listen to audio: https://www.oris-connect.com/en/podca... ▬▬▬▬▬ Resources & Links Mentioned International Road Federation (IRF): https://www.irf.global IRF Vision 2030 Strategy — "Sustainable Roads for People and Planet": https://www.irf.global IRF "Roadmaps for Change" — UN Decade on Sustainable Transport commitment: https://www.irf.global UN Decade on Sustainable Transport 2026–2035 Implementation Plan: https://www.un.org SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport: https://slocat.net Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) Framework: https://slocat.net/asi/ Connect with Alice Yiu on LinkedIn:   / aliceyiu114   ORIS Materials Intelligence Platform: https://www.oris-connect.com/en/ ▬▬▬▬▬ What is ORIS? ORIS is the only sustainability platform purpose-built for linear infrastructure. We integrate directly into BIM environments and leading design software (including any BIM format and Autodesk Civil 3D and Revit) so engineers can turn days of manual LCA work into hours and get compliance-ready carbon calculations without leaving their design tools. Built on a science-backed LCA methodology (EN 17472, EN 15804, PAS 2080-compliant), ORIS helps firms reduce project emissions by up to 50% and material costs by up to 30%. ORIS also offers tech-enabled services on topics such as infrastructure climate resilience. Deployed at scale by Ramboll throughout Europe, AECOM (£1M savings on a single project), Sweco (90% time saved on pavement design), and dozens of Europe's Tier 1 engineering consultancies and contractors. Founded in 2021 in Paris, ORIS has raised a Series A round of €3M from Liberset. Built by a team of industry veterans, researchers and engineers on a mission.