ORIS Materials Intelligence and Ramboll have announced a ground breaking partnership focused on enhancing carbon emissions measurement and reduction in the road infrastructure sector.
ORIS will integrate Ramboll’s FuelSave solution into its platform as part of this collaboration. This will create a comprehensive digital assessment model that addresses the entire lifecycle of road projects, from construction to traffic emissions.
Ramboll will adopt ORIS across its global teams to provide a unified platform for sustainability assessment in the road infrastructure sector as part of the agreement. It will gradually replace its internal tool, ZeroInfra.
Advancing Road Sustainability
FuelSave is a web-based software, invented and developed by Ramboll Road Survey Technology (RST), that enables a unique sustainability assessment of early road planning and detailed design work. The application predicts energy use and CO2 emissions by combining road design with road conditions and forecasts on traffic, as well as inputs on vehicle fuel types and energy sources. FuelSave calculates the predicted traffic emissions, fuel consumption, and fuel costs for multiple design options in a life cycle perspective and enables simulations for different traffic forecasts and compares all alternatives to inform more sustainable design decisions.
ORIS Materials Intelligence is a web-based software enabling sustainable road infrastructure with a solution which provides early assessment in the design and construction phase to reduce costs, carbon emissions, and natural resource usage while improving road safety and climate resilience.
By incorporating FuelSave technology into the ORIS platform, this partnership will provide the road infrastructure sector with a holistic and user-friendly platform for assessing, mitigating, and reducing carbon emissions associated with the entire lifecycle of road construction and operations (from material embodied carbon emissions to transportation and traffic-related emissions).
Impact on Road Infrastructure Assessment
With FuelSave, ORIS’s carbon models – which assess and quantify the carbon footprint of road infrastructure projects throughout their lifecycle – will expand to include:
- Improvement of transportation analysis of the construction phase by including slope and speed components (Life Cycle Assessment Requirements A2 & A4 in EN 15804)
- Assessment of the emissions related to traffic management and congestion during the construction phase (Life Cycle Assessment Requirements A5 in EN 15804)
- Calculation of the emissions for the use phase, factoring the specific road geometry with the integration of traffic evolution, its effect on carbon emissions, and the opportunity to identify mitigation solutions
This integration empowers engineers and designers with a solution to predict traffic impacts and reduce carbon emissions, paving the way for more sustainable road infrastructure.
Autodesk, Inc., a global leader in design and make technology for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations industry, supports the new partnership and continued developments of the existing ORIS plugin to Autodesk Civil 3D. Integrating the innovative FuelSave technology into the ORIS Materials Intelligence platform will expand the suite of sustainability solutions accessible to Autodesk users’ existing design environment. Civil engineers will be able to assess holistic environmental impacts associated with road and highway projects, enabling them to analyse and compare the carbon emissions associated with their designs. The combined technologies, available through the ORIS integration in Civil 3D, will enable engineers to conduct early-stage carbon assessments, simulate traffic impacts, and explore mitigation strategies for more sustainably built roads.
Furthermore, integrating traffic assessments at the design stage will enable users to anticipate and reduce the predicted operational carbon impacts of road traffic – now in addition to the upfront carbon emissions associated with material sourcing and construction – contributing to global climate action in a sector responsible for 12.2 % of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide (source: WRI).
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Stefan Wallman, Managing Director Ramboll Transport said: “I am delighted to announce our strategic partnership with ORIS Materials Intelligence, marking a significant step in advancing the further development of FuelSave and enhancing our efforts to deliver Low Carbon Infrastructure. This collaboration is set to bring innovative benefits to a wider audience worldwide. Our commitment lies in delivering sustainable solutions that effectively reduce costs, lower carbon emissions, and conserve natural resources. Simultaneously, we aim to elevate road safety and fortify the resilience of infrastructure. The ORIS platform plays an instrumental role by providing vital data that is essential for the success of these projects.”
Marta Bouchard, Director, Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk added: “Roads and highways are a significant part of the global built environment and there is tremendous opportunity to reduce the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. Our work with ORIS and Ramboll brings together technologies that address two parts of the emissions equation – embodied and operational carbon – enabling engineers to optimize road designs while mitigating lifecycle carbon emissions. A lower carbon future depends on these collaborations which connect data, unlock new workflows, and empower our customers to achieve more sustainable outcomes.”-1.png)
Nicolas Miravalls, Co-founder & CEO of ORIS Materials Intelligence said: “We are honoured to collaborate with Ramboll and Autodesk in this partnership, representing a significant step toward reducing carbon emissions in the road sector. By integrating FuelSave into the ORIS platform, we are improving our capacity to provide comprehensive, data-driven solutions that tackle carbon emissions throughout the entire lifecycle of road projects. This partnership underscores our commitment to developing more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive transportation infrastructure.”