Maintenance emission information model

Maintenance emission information model: Developing an information model/tool to quantify CO2 emissions from maintenance activities of large number of assets in a Municipality

Uthirapathi, PRABAKARAN (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Jonkers, H.M. (mentor)
van Nederveen, G.A. (graduation committee)
Visser, Ben (mentor)
Raghavendra Rao, Shreenidhi (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2023-01-27

The construction industry in the Netherlands is taking numerous measures throughout the industry to achieve the possible reduction of CO2 emission or GHG emissions by 2050 to become carbon neutral. Based on the current situation the major focus is usually on the production and construction phase of a building or a civil infrastructure. To meet the requirements to minimize CO2 emissions, the municipalities and the stakeholders involved in the maintenance phase of civil structures have to improve the emission reduction process. This can be made possible if the quantification of the CO2 emission is improvised from the current status and focuses only on the maintenance activities alone.

The results of the research are obtained from the developed information model. The information model allows the user to estimate the CO2 emissions from the maintenance activities of the assets located in a municipality. The data obtained from the estimation of CO2 is used in the dashboard of the information model to visualize and compare the data in terms of different criteria like building materials, size of the assets, location of the assets, heavy machinery usage, etc. This way, the decisions can be made by the involved stakeholders in asset management in the strategies of the maintenance planning of the assets or the overall municipality.

This information model can add value to the existing life cycle applications since the maintenance or the usage phase emission is redefined and the necessary scope for maintenance is added to the existing scope. The consultants, asset owners/managers can monitor the CO2 emission from the maintenance activities specifically and can take any measures with the output data available from the information model. This information model currently quantifies the CO2 emission from the minor maintenance activities of the assets in a municipality. With this information, the next step can lead to optimizing the CO2 emission with other criteria like time and cost for the entire Municipality.

Sustainability
CO2 Emissions
Asset Management
Asset Maintenance
Information Model

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Student theses

master thesis

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