ORIS Materials Intelligence and Ramboll are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership focused on enhancing carbon emissions measurement and reduction in the road infrastructure sector. ORIS will integrate Ramboll’s FuelSave solution into its platform as part of this collaboration. This will create a comprehensive digital assessment model that addresses the entire lifecycle of road projects, from construction to traffic emissions.
Ramboll will adopt ORIS across its global teams to provide a unified platform for sustainability assessment in the road infrastructure sector as part of the agreement. It will gradually replace its internal tool, ZeroInfra.
FuelSave is a web-based software, invented and developed by Ramboll RST (Road Survey Technology), that enables a unique sustainability assessment of early road planning and detailed design work. The application predicts energy use and CO2 emissions by combining road design with road conditions and forecasts on traffic, as well as inputs on vehicle fuel types and energy sources. FuelSave calculates the predicted traffic emissions, fuel consumption, and fuel costs for multiple design options in a life cycle perspective and enables simulations for different traffic forecasts and compares all alternatives to inform more sustainable design decisions.
ORIS Materials Intelligence is a web-based software enabling sustainable road infrastructure with a solution which provides early assessment in the design and construction phase to reduce costs, carbon emissions, and natural resource usage while improving road safety and climate resilience.
By incorporating FuelSave technology into the ORIS platform, this partnership will provide the road infrastructure sector with a holistic and user-friendly platform for assessing, mitigating, and reducing carbon emissions associated with the entire lifecycle of road construction and operations (from material embodied carbon emissions to transportation and traffic-related emissions).
With FuelSave, ORIS’s carbon models - which assess and quantify the carbon footprint of road infrastructure projects throughout their lifecycle - will expand to include:
This integration empowers engineers and designers with a solution to predict traffic impacts and reduce carbon emissions, paving the way for more sustainable road infrastructure.
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a global leader in design and make technology for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry, supports the new partnership and continued developments of the existing ORIS plugin to Autodesk Civil 3D. Integrating the innovative FuelSave technology into the ORIS Materials Intelligence platform will expand the suite of sustainability solutions accessible to Autodesk users’ existing design environment. Civil engineers will be able to assess holistic environmental impacts associated with road and highway projects, enabling them to analyze and compare the carbon emissions associated with their designs. The combined technologies, available through the ORIS integration in Civil 3D, will enable engineers to conduct early-stage carbon assessments, simulate traffic impacts, and explore mitigation strategies for more sustainably built roads.
Furthermore, integrating traffic assessments at the design stage will enable users to anticipate and reduce the predicted operational carbon impacts of road traffic - now in addition to the upfront carbon emissions associated with material sourcing and construction - contributing to global climate action in a sector responsible for 12.2
% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide (source: WRI).