ALTAROAD provides a digital platform that ensures regulatory compliance of your waste, excavated soil, and material flow management.
It allows for an easy traceability thanks to a practical solution adaptable to any site.
What is the problem/issue being addressed? Why is it important for society?
Demolition and construction industry waste accounts for the largest portion of the entire waste stream in the European Union : 1/3 of all waste produced, or 830 million tonnes per year, including soil.
Furthermore, D&C is a large user of truck transportation, moving excavation materials and waste and bringing in all the construction materials to worksites. This constant truck flow has a deep environmental impact, including gas emissions, noise, congestion or overweight trucks on urban roads. Representing only 3% of the traffic, trucks cause 20% of congestions and increased mortality.
Although D&C waste materials contain high quantities of potentially valuable resources such as metals, wood, glass and concrete, only about 50% of D&C waste is currently being recycled. This percentage is difficult to estimate because less than 1% of all material flows have good traceability. With the exception of a few EU countries, the green maturity of the D&C industry remains low. The potential to increase construction-sector contributions to European Green Deal objectives is huge, but many challenges and barriers in the field must still be addressed.
The only way to satisfy the 70% material recycling achievement for D&C sector is by addressing the different barriers: fragmentation, complexity, monetization.
What are the overall objectives?
ALTAROAD is the ONLY “ONE-STOP-SOLUTION” covering these different challenges while creating digitized processes and business value.
ALTAROAD was created to capture, analyse and systematically orchestrate the huge volume of D&C flows. The solution digitizes the flows with disruptive innovation to monitor the two main levers: the precise identification and weighing of both materials and trucks flows. Because materials are properly traced, they can better monetized, making them sustainable. Because all trucks are identified and weighed, traffic can be optimized.
During the EIC program, ALTAROAD has increased its footprint from a couple of sites to hundreds of them, with successful results captured in video testimonials from clients. The examples of different successful deployments show that, when properly designed , traceability becomes a precious tool for reaching and improving the performance in terms of management of construction waste for both contractors and owners. The Altaroad team is very proud to have conducted our first international deployments during the EIC program and is now addressing international clients with presence in multiples countries. Those clients see the potential of harmonized processes across teams and regions to secure an optimal use of time and money, as well as an optimized circular economy model and reduced carbon emissions.
