Deploy sustainable design out in the field: a diverse range of projects United Arab Emirates Promoting energy Sustainable design and construction can be applied to a wide range of efficiency in desert extremely different projects at various stages of design. It involves surroundings reducing negative impacts and maximising positive impacts as part of a high-performance and economic viability approach and covers a range Italy The Etihad Rail project seeks to improve of different areas. Let’s take a look at some of the year’s iconic projects. Environmental transport and connectivity in the United performance targets Arab Emirates between now and 2024. The goal? Design modern trains and France as levers for suitable maintenance facilities, while Transforming the sustainable design reducing energy consumption by 17%. Anne-de-Bretagne Bridge The technical solutions used include Taranto’s new multimodal exchange hub COsensors for ensuring optimum2 India The Anne-de-Bretagne Bridge project in aspires to being exemplary. In addition air quality and making minimum use of Carbontracker in action Nantes includes a significant sustainable to adhering to the DNSH principle, three(1) water, as well as passive strategies, such design and construction component, with the major environmental certifications guarantee as using shadowing and high-reflective on the Nagpur-Mumbai emphasis on planted areas and biodiversity, the project’s sustainability: LEED,(2) materials for thermal comfort. The project expressway project making economic use of resources and the Envision Protocol and the Italian CAM(3) also gives preference to recycled materials, reducing the impacts of the construction certification. To ensure that the project thus reducing waste. A vulnerability Carbontracker can measure, manage, phase. By transforming a road bridge into a was awarded the certifications, our teams assessment was conducted to anticipate and optimise carbon emissions, starting multifunctional area, an ecological link is createdadopted a high environmental performance specific local conditions and increased in the design phase, thus ensuring the across green spaces and climate challenges areapproach – from design right through climate risks. United Kingdom environmental sustainability of projects. addressed. The approach used involves reusing to operation. The restructuring, designed Grovehurst Road, On this project, a comprehensive materials and procuring them via the river, using a building information modelling analysis of 155 assets and 26 different and logistics that minimise disruption. Reusingsystem (BIM), also sets out to preserve local net gain in biodiversity, types of component resulted in a 10% the existing bridge avoided having to destroy resources, minimise visual impacts and a reality reduction in carbon emissions: 72% for 4,250 tonnes of concrete and 1,300 tonnes reduce construction waste, while factoring the expressways and 28% for the structures. of steel, thus preventing 6,000 tonnes of CO2 in climate vulnerability and enabling The improvements to the Grovehurst The carbon footprint of the earthworks equivalent from being released. strategies for adapting to climate change. Road interchange are designed to reduce and roadways, of the polytetrafluoroethylene traffic jams and support Kent’s growth. (PTFE), of the concrete and of the steel (1) DNSH: Do No Significant Harm. was significantly reduced. Here, value (2) LEED: Leadership in Energy By adopting a holistic approach to managing and Environmental Design. the landscape and ecology, the project engineering is an innovative approach: (3) CAM: Criteri Ambientali Minimi. is breaking new ground in achieving not by identifying alternative design solutions, only zero negative ecological impacts but it increases project performance, an impressive 15% net gain in biodiversity. sustainability, and profitability. The solutions put forward include the creation of indigenous wooded zones – which serve as habitat for local wildlife, including bats. Rainwater is also innovatively managed. 2023 Sustainabil ity Report | 9