Research into India-specific emission factors, practical policy initiatives, and proper evaluation of available green technologies are needed to keep carbon emissions low in road construction and maintenance projects, Ankit Gupta, Associate Professor and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, has said.
Dr. Gupta was speaking on Saturday on 'Greenhouse gas estimation methodology and carbon-efficient technologies for sustainable road construction and maintenance' at the National Conference on Resilient Infrastructure (NCRI-2022) organised by the Kerala Highway Research Institute (KHRI), an agency under the Public Works Department, and IIT, Palakkad.
Engineers needed to focus on finding out which of the green technologies available were sustainable, cost-efficient, and best-suited to a given construction project, he said. ''For example, in Kerala, you have natural disasters like floods or landslides. Considering these factors, can you quantify your projects on the basis of the different approaches as to which is more resilient or less resilient in terms of some numbers?'' he said.
