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Key facts
- Buyer
- National Highways · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £105,585.95
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Research & development · Development consultancy services (CPV 73220000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Mar 2024
- Published5 Feb 2025Published 335 days after the contract date
Description
The asPECT tool has become established as the method for producers to carbon footprint asphalt mixtures that are used on the SRN and beyond. asPECT was last updated in 2020, having originally been developed in 2009. As the net zero agenda has gathered pace in recent years, demand for a tool such as asPECT has increased, in order to provide mixture-specific carbon footprints for individual schemes, which often incorporate innovations that are specifically aimed at reducing carbon emissions, such as lower-temperature mixtures, high recycled contents and bitumen with novel additives. Furthermore, the methodology for carbon footprinting has evolved and is now tending towards use of the climate change impact categories of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as a perceived 'reliable' source of data, including the forthcoming whole-life cost-carbon tool for road schemes. Other core impact categories of EPDs produced in accordance with EN 15804:2012+A2:2019 are also coming more into foc…
About the supplier
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