Mass-haul Environmental Impact Minimisation: a practical method for greening road procurement

A small but effective change is recommended for procurement processes related to mass-haul/earthworks operations on major road projects. This practical system for motivating GHGE minimisation is presented as a series of interventions in the procurement cycle of major road projects. Recommendations for all procurement phases are based on reducing the effort/work required for mass-haul activities. Hauls planned using a contractor's preferred methods can be used to calculate comparative GHGE reductions by using the planned effort/work involved in the physical movement of loads. This small change to existing methods has the potential to deliver a major reduction in GHGE from earthworks mass haul during construction of major road and other infrastructure projects.