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Title:

Comparative Assessment of Infrastructure Sustainability Rating Tools
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Accession Number:

01629982

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Following the establishment of sustainability rating schemes for buildings, rating schemes for horizontal infrastructure (e.g. road, rail, water) have emerged. The study assesses the four third-party verified infrastructure sustainability rating tools used by industry – CEEQUAL, Envision, Infrastructure Sustainability and Greenroads – and analyzes how they recognize performance, examining similarities and differences. While others have examined the internal workings of such tools, this study takes a new approach by focusing on project application - assessing an infrastructure project under each tool and comparing the results. The study presents a unique perspective on bias within the tools, highlighting how the tools assess and reward projects and the various directions they drive users in to improve sustainability performance. The research highlights the dangers of direct comparisons across ratings and challenges the assumed benchmarks of what defines a sustainable project. It guides users on allowing for bias and provides information to assist with the tool selection under different project environments.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD40 Standing Committee on Transportation and Sustainability.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01265

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Griffiths, Kerry A
Boyle, Carol
Henning, Theunis F P

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Environment; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01265

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:23AM