Asphalt Group has entered a partnership with Asphalt-IQ to use an innovative system to collect carbon data directly from work sites.
Asphalt-IQ provides a carbon reporting solution for the highways sector, meeting Asphalt Group’s recently acquired PAS 2080.
Asphalt Group will use the company’s smartphone app which enables the calculation and GPS recording of carbon emissions from road surface treatment and surfacing works.
The solution will be implemented across all four businesses in the group – Reinforcement; Preservations; Surface Dressing and Surfacing – allowing the company to capture carbon data directly from a site in less than a minute.
It is currently being used across the company’s surface dressing contracts – in Ceredigion, East Riding of Yorkshire and Pembrokeshire – to support with carbon reporting and targets.
Stephen Cooke, Managing Director of Asphalt Group, said:
“It is important that we take steps as a company to decarbonise our own operations and in turn help others to do so.
“A big part of this is being able to track carbon emissions data – so it is great that we use a system which makes it simple and effective for us to be able to do so.”