Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook
Sustainability is often an element that informs decisions made during the planning,
programming, and design phases of highway construction projects. However, the construction
phase of a highway project is also an opportunity to advance sustainability.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Research Report 916: Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook provides clear and practical information on what constitutes
sustainability in the context of highway construction and how to evaluate any proposed
construction practice for its sustainability potential.
The guidebook supports implementation
by describing ways to explicitly advance sustainability in procurement and contracting and
how to develop a sustainability management plan for the construction phase.
An overview of NCHRP Research Report 916 is provided in this
PowerPoint presentation.
A separate publication,
NCHRP Web-Only Document 262: Sustainable Highway Construction, describes the research process and outcomes used to develop NCHRP Research Report 916.
A summary of NCHRP Web-Only Document 262 is provided in this
PowerPoint presentation.
This Summary Last Modified On: 1/30/2020