Ramboll and ORIS Materials Intelligence 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.

FuelSave is a digital web-based software that enables a unique sustainability dimension to early road planning and detailed design work. Invented and developed by Ramboll RST, the application pinpoints energy use and CO₂ emissions by combining road design with road conditions and forecasts on traffic, fuel types and energy sources. FuelSave calculates the traffic emissions, energy use and fuel costs for multiple design options in a life cycle perspective and enables simulations for different traffic forecasts and compares all alternatives from a sustainability perspective.

ORIS Materials Intelligence is a cloud-based software enabling sustainable infrastructure with a solution which provides early assessment in the design and construction phase and identity levers to reduce costs, carbon emissions, and natural resource usage while enhancing road safety and climate resilience. 

By incorporating FuelSave into the ORIS platform, this partnership will provide the transportation infrastructure sector with a holistic and user-friendly platform for assessing, mitigating, and reducing road carbon emissions, considering their entire lifecycle (from embedded carbon emissions to transportation and traffic-related emissions).

With FuelSave, ORIS’s carbon models will expand to include:

• • • Improvement of transportation analysis of the construction phase by including slope and speed components (A2 & A4)
    • Assessment of the emissions related to traffic management and congestion during the construction phase (A5)
    • Calculation of the emissions for the use phase, for the specific road geometry with the integration of traffic evolution, its effect on carbon emissions, and the opportunity to identify mitigation solutions
      
      
      

Integrating traffic assessments at the design stage will enable clients to anticipate and reduce the carbon impact of road traffic, contributing to global climate action in a sector responsible for 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide.

As part of the agreement, Ramboll will adopt ORIS across its global teams to provide a unified platform for sustainability assessment in infrastructure projects. It will gradually replace its internal tool, ZeroInfra.  

Stefan Wallmann

Managing Director Ramboll Transport

“I am delighted to announce our strategic partnership with ORIS Materials Intelligence, marking a significant step in advancing the further development of FuelSave and enhancing our efforts to deliver Low Carbon Infrastructure. This collaboration is set to bring innovative benefits to a wider audience worldwide. Our commitment lies in delivering sustainable solutions that effectively reduce costs, lower carbon emissions, and conserve natural resources. Simultaneously, we aim to elevate road safety and fortify the resilience of infrastructure. The ORIS platform plays an instrumental role by providing vital data that is essential for the success of these projects.”

 

Nicolas Miravalls

Co-founder & CEO of ORIS Materials Intelligence

“We are honoured to collaborate with Ramboll in this partnership, which represents a significant step toward reducing carbon emissions in the road sector. By integrating FuelSave into the ORIS platform, we are improving our capacity to provide comprehensive, data-driven solutions that tackle carbon emissions throughout the entire lifecycle of road projects. This partnership underscores our commitment to developing more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive transportation infrastructure.”

 

About ORIS Materials Intelligence

ORIS Materials Intelligence offers cloud-based software that measures and optimises carbon emissions in linear transportation infrastructure. It empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions to reduce carbon emissions by up to 50% and natural resources by up to 80%. Since its 2021 launch, the ORIS platform has focused on comparing multi-criteria solutions to conceive low-carbon, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure projects. Headquartered in Paris, with an office in Lyon and representatives in Europe and Asia, ORIS collaborates with industry leaders such as Sweco, Ramboll, Bouygues, and AECOM, as well as authorities such as Die Autobahn, the Asian Development Bank, and UNIDO to enhance project sustainability from the design stage. Recognised for its innovative and transformative approach to civil engineering, LCA, climate resilience, data science, and AI, ORIS won the International Road Federation 2024 Award in the “Decarbonisation and Circular Economy” category. For more information, go to www.oris-connect.com/en or LinkedIn: ORIS Materials Intelligence.

About Ramboll

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. Our more than 18,000 experts create sustainable solutions across Buildings, Transport, Energy, Environment & Health, Water, Management Consulting and Architecture & Landscape. Across the world, Ramboll combines local experience with a global knowledge base to create sustainable cities and societies. We combine insights with the power to drive positive change for our clients, in the form of ideas that can be realised and implemented. We call it: Bright ideas. Sustainable change.
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