How Infrastructures Last Longer, Use Less Gravel and Emit Less Carbon: Geosynthetics & Water Management
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IGS-NA & CGS-Geosynthetic Division Webinar - May 6, 2025
This webinar will first introduce the benefits provided by geosynthetics to prevent typical water-related failures in civil infrastructures. While sand and gravel are typically used to control water and provide structural capacity, it will be shown that a sustainable approach to construction requires reducing drastically the consumption of aggregates, which are among the less renewable resources on earth and already require longer hauling distances to fulfill the needs in most urban areas. Principles of carbon calculation will then be introduced and applied to typical road construction. It will be shown that hauling gravels over just 8 kilometers (5 miles) always exceeds carbon emissions associated with the production and installation of geosynthetics in a road structure.
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