Moving towards Green Public Procurement in Belgium ...

Integrating sustainability in the road construction sector is omnipresent and is still gaining interest. This paper specifically addresses the topic of environment-friendly and sustainable procurement of road works (Green Public Procurement). The Belgian Road Research Centre has formed a national working group with members from road administrations, road contractors, and sustainability experts. The main objectives of this working group are to help road authorities (at the national and regional levels) in the process of including sustainability indicators in their road tenders, with a view to a... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Maeck Johan
Redant Kris
Dokumenttyp: Scholarlyarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Sustainability / Life Cycle Analysis Modelling and Prediction / green public procurement / Decarbonization
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28968809
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1446070

Integrating sustainability in the road construction sector is omnipresent and is still gaining interest. This paper specifically addresses the topic of environment-friendly and sustainable procurement of road works (Green Public Procurement). The Belgian Road Research Centre has formed a national working group with members from road administrations, road contractors, and sustainability experts. The main objectives of this working group are to help road authorities (at the national and regional levels) in the process of including sustainability indicators in their road tenders, with a view to achieving Green Public Procurement in their road projects, and to keep abreast of new developments: European guidelines, best practices in the sector, progress in other sectors such as the building industry, and certification in other sectors and in road construction. The aim is to define the most important sustainability (environmental-social-financial) indicators in the life cycle of a road pavement, and use the ...