Periodic Reporting for period 2 - TRACK4REUSE (Defining new waste traceability standards for the green Demolition and Construction industry)
Período documentado: 2021-11-01 hasta 2022-10-31
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.
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.
The program is covering several aspects :
1) Market education
At milestones : small and large projects deployed and surveyed, service revisited based on feedback. Best practice documented. Communication strategy prepared and rolled out.
2) Platform technical scalability for European roll out
At milestones : energy reduced by 90%. Platform upgraded to manage thousands of sites. Computer vision first functionalities deployed. New services launched.
3) Manufacturing & supply chain ramp up
At milestone : production of small batch secured, costs reduced.
As the end of the program,
● Hundreds of small and large projects have been deployed;
● Services have been revisited based on different feedback from different user profiles, and is now supported in several langages. New services have been released on real carbon footprint calculation.
● Best practices have been documented, and included in the service roll out.
● Communication strategy was prepared and rolled out, in France and first European countries (Spain, Germany, Austria, Norway, Poland) and Switzerland.
● The Altaroad website is #1 for the Google search “traçabilité déchet BTP” in French and several videos have been produced including client testimonials.
● Participation to international forums have increased our pipeline by hundreds of prospects (Bauma in Germany, Intersoil in Belgium, Intertraffic in Amsterdam, World Tunnelling Congress 2022 in Copenhagen). Presentation done at Intersoil congress, Brussels.
● First deployment abroad with Altaroad site in Switzerland.
1) Market education
At milestones : small and large projects deployed and surveyed, service revisited based on feedback. Best practice documented. Communication strategy prepared and rolled out.
2) Platform technical scalability for European roll out
At milestones : energy reduced by 90%. Platform upgraded to manage thousands of sites. Computer vision first functionalities deployed. New services launched.
3) Manufacturing & supply chain ramp up
At milestone : production of small batch secured, costs reduced.
As the end of the program,
● Hundreds of small and large projects have been deployed;
● Services have been revisited based on different feedback from different user profiles, and is now supported in several langages. New services have been released on real carbon footprint calculation.
● Best practices have been documented, and included in the service roll out.
● Communication strategy was prepared and rolled out, in France and first European countries (Spain, Germany, Austria, Norway, Poland) and Switzerland.
● The Altaroad website is #1 for the Google search “traçabilité déchet BTP” in French and several videos have been produced including client testimonials.
● Participation to international forums have increased our pipeline by hundreds of prospects (Bauma in Germany, Intersoil in Belgium, Intertraffic in Amsterdam, World Tunnelling Congress 2022 in Copenhagen). Presentation done at Intersoil congress, Brussels.
● First deployment abroad with Altaroad site in Switzerland.
Our project initiates a virtual circle towards a 70% recycling ratio that will drive to the saving of 370 Millions of tons of natural resources in Europe each year.
3 - Transitioning of industry to a clean and/or circular economy
Reliable, comparable and verifiable information also plays an important part in enabling buyers to make more sustainable decisions and reduces the risk of ‘green washing’.
ALTAROAD allows contractors to document real-time indicators to their clients regarding their performances in terms of reuse and recycling, and owners & project coordinators to request quantified information from their potential contractors about their recycling strategy. Our service traces each ton of D&C materials, what is recycled and what is not. Our platform implement incentive policy to maximise the recycled ratio. Final waste materials can be accounted for and paid by stakeholders.
5 - Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility
Transport accounts for ¼ of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Our solution reduces by 5% to 10% the heavy load traffic by a much more precise weighting and traffic flow management, while preventing the circulation of overloaded trucks. The impact is higher than commonly thought: Given the volume of D&C Wastes in Europe, 1 000 Mt in 2019 (source BRGM), 5% of saving is equivalent to 3 M less trucks circulating or 168 000t CO2 based on a average trip of 35km.
By providing (weight-sensitive) traceability solutions across the D&C value chains, we developed accurate calculators of CO2 impact and pollution generation of D&C transport.
Our solution, being highly compact, is particularly well suited for construction sites in dense urban area. In such context it has proved its capability to streamline the traffic on and around D&C sites. It leads to drastically less nuisances: less noise and less stop&go (each fast restart triples the emissions of a truck and causes 8% more GHG emissions; 1.8kg CO2/restart)
Economic benefits for the D&C Industry
ALTAROAD fosters financial & performance benefits for D&C site owners, leading to mindsets changing at the industry scale in favor of digitalization, transparency, fair pricing and performance-based thinking.
The solution enforces better sorting of materials thanks to precise weighting and end to end traceability with financial incentives
• value of recycled material.
• reduced transportation cost
• reduced costs of overload fines
The solution enables also to reduce HR cost
We have also reported:
• Reduced cost due thanks to better control of purchased quantities delivery
• Reduced cost due to theft and asset management on jobsite thanks to better traceability of all movements and all vehicles.
3 - Transitioning of industry to a clean and/or circular economy
Reliable, comparable and verifiable information also plays an important part in enabling buyers to make more sustainable decisions and reduces the risk of ‘green washing’.
ALTAROAD allows contractors to document real-time indicators to their clients regarding their performances in terms of reuse and recycling, and owners & project coordinators to request quantified information from their potential contractors about their recycling strategy. Our service traces each ton of D&C materials, what is recycled and what is not. Our platform implement incentive policy to maximise the recycled ratio. Final waste materials can be accounted for and paid by stakeholders.
5 - Accelerating the shift to sustainable and smart mobility
Transport accounts for ¼ of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Our solution reduces by 5% to 10% the heavy load traffic by a much more precise weighting and traffic flow management, while preventing the circulation of overloaded trucks. The impact is higher than commonly thought: Given the volume of D&C Wastes in Europe, 1 000 Mt in 2019 (source BRGM), 5% of saving is equivalent to 3 M less trucks circulating or 168 000t CO2 based on a average trip of 35km.
By providing (weight-sensitive) traceability solutions across the D&C value chains, we developed accurate calculators of CO2 impact and pollution generation of D&C transport.
Our solution, being highly compact, is particularly well suited for construction sites in dense urban area. In such context it has proved its capability to streamline the traffic on and around D&C sites. It leads to drastically less nuisances: less noise and less stop&go (each fast restart triples the emissions of a truck and causes 8% more GHG emissions; 1.8kg CO2/restart)
Economic benefits for the D&C Industry
ALTAROAD fosters financial & performance benefits for D&C site owners, leading to mindsets changing at the industry scale in favor of digitalization, transparency, fair pricing and performance-based thinking.
The solution enforces better sorting of materials thanks to precise weighting and end to end traceability with financial incentives
• value of recycled material.
• reduced transportation cost
• reduced costs of overload fines
The solution enables also to reduce HR cost
We have also reported:
• Reduced cost due thanks to better control of purchased quantities delivery
• Reduced cost due to theft and asset management on jobsite thanks to better traceability of all movements and all vehicles.