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uh uh
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a raw uh okay i'll start singing in it um and
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also present of a of international just next society
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so they asked me to talk today about um just in that extra specifically about uh the country's nature
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textiles um to global sustainable the agenda uh so it's not we can't include key read that back
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god wanted to read it you read it so um as mean that that is um they said that a
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small white studies those sleeping is passed maybe not saying i'm not sleeping haven't environment of environmentally friendly day
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what if i stay in bed i don't use up the that's precious resources
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no driving around reducing greenhouse gases no consumer consumption frenzy i even use less oxygen
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how do you plan to make a living as several websites where people come by my carbon credits
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and they can take their aeroplanes and drive s. u. v.'s not just aimed at all but i do love if you could do that wouldn't it anyways
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so sustainable development and i think it's good in our growing
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realisation that the current model of development is unsustainable
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the global goal has to be a for all people throughout the world can satisfy the basic needs
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get a better quality of life but importantly that without compromising future generations
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national governments focusing on things like climate change
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energy natural resources sustainable consumption sustainable communities
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i think some climate change is unfortunately inevitable so what can we
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do well we have to reduce our feature because gas emissions
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now if we go back to uh uh the uh coda protocol which everyone should have that
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where the you agreed reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below the nineteen ninety levels
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are in the period the first period the two thousand eight thousand and twelve
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we actually managed to beat up quite significantly reduced uh by fifteen percent in nineteen ninety levels
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since then things have moved on that the postscript appeared is called up to two thousand and twenty
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uh where the user targets for a twenty percent reduction in greenhouse gas levels twenty percent
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of energy consumed from renewable sources and also twenty percent improvement in energy efficiency
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how we got that well i think we do quite well but the uh the results obviously having been published yet 'cause it's only two thousand seventeen
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but i have looked we further forward and is currently the the twenty thirty flight climate
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and angie framework targets is adopted a few years ago no two thousand fourteen where
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the you said we'd have at least forty percent reduction in greenhouse gas
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emissions in the nineteen ninety levels at least twenty seven percent and
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you can see interminable souls is at least twenty percent improvement in
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energy efficiency to start to plan ahead to two hundred thirty
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in fact we can even further ahead is a twenty fifty energy strategy
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that's we trying to reduce greenhouse gas levels by somewhere between eighty and ninety five percent
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no various countries agree to different levels and the u. k. fortunately is i don't
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agree to eighty percent of the countries are going for high it's like it
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ninety five percent reduction on the nineteen like levels that's
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a significant significant improvement to managers to to get
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isn't it more uh the more recent uh there was the
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the parts finite at conference in december two thousand fifteen
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a weather was a global action plan and not just the your
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global action plan limit global warming to well below too greasy
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it came up with a transparent accountable system but to enter into
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force at least fifty five can countries needed to rectify
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so in september two thousand sixteen last year at the us actually ratified at a bottom about men
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and and that's important because the us uh currently has sixteen percent of global emissions
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but also the same time china ratify it and they currently have
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twenty eight percent global emissions those are clearly to key players
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what do we do well in october last year at the you folded a ratify the agreement with them brought into play
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then what happens well november two thousand sixteen the price agreement came into force also in november two thousand sixteen
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adult from became presents and i'm sure you're aware that he's a a climate change ask attack
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um and uh he's currently thinking of pulling out of the the
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agreement and shiner saying that they may a polite as well
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so clearly it's a bit uncertain as to what's that what's happening there
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be maybe aesthetic but i think there is ever interfere double proof that global warming it goes
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one on the left so what about this a couple forefront that well what is the common for all of your problem for it
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is the measurement of the total greenhouse gas emissions cause either directly or indirectly
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from the person auger cotton for print an organisation or whatever and comp
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or we could look at siblings instructors last only be looking out in the in the rest of the presentation
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the fabric is it is the six go to protocol years gases which
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are listed that and generally measured in tons of carbon dioxide equivalent
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everybody carbon can be used as an indicator of cumulative carbon
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emissions and different people are uh measuring slightly differently
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that was the reason study a love for university in the u. k. i. which is
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funded by the u. k. chapter of the inner cities next is like it
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uh which came up with somebody carbon values for different just like product
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uh and this has to the information that we still getting from produces my factories
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a publishing their own values as well which is the increasing the uh the data bank in information is very useful
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uh we can compare the common for prince at two alternative constructions solutions
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so we can look at what's more sustainable using just not x. not using just
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oh incorrect side by side approach uh look at project specifics
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now we can also look at as was the car before when we can look
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at life cycle assessment 'cause this is the broadest indicated environmental performance international standards
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no only evaluate the impact on climate change the other impact as
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well like yeah uh that's a vacation potential ozone depletion
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other things as well and there's some research been done and just make some using l. c. a.s as well
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uh on an l. c. or the other product or system is evaluated was complete stand
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from the initial extraction the role material i thirty meter processing manufacturing assembly construction
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use of the product other than important is well the uh at the end life process is whether
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it's reuse recycling where you can recover any energy from it and eventually uh the waste disposal
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when you look at l. c. i. a little life cycle assessment you need to clearly define the boundaries that you look at that
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um so there's several different types you can have a a cradle to gate so that is a from
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the extraction and the manufacturing asked through for it to the uh to get a manufacturing plant
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cradle to sites ones and look at the site prevented construction as it's as like cradle to grave the ultimate
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uh disposal to different people looking at a life cycle assessments which is not it's not the materials
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looking at different uh ranges just quite difficult to actually compare between um different research out
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but if we start looking at a civil engineer project what type of approach to we need
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well one isn't a look at the nature the project what materials are available locally
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now we know that when we have just in the next day off we delivered
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to cite an obvious significant part of the cotton for print form material
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uh but you haven't got pro materials on site then that has a significant impact
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as well supply logistic site layout things like that are also um important
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let's look at some examples them well uh the first film look at that
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i was published in you came two thousand nine i'm also stable g. systems in civil injuring applications
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uh this uses that term geo system but the majority of these
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did have due synthetics and some legit textiles in it
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and they calculated um compared to the missions to six
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detailed case studies after range different um construction activities
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oh sure you can read that for the first one is environmental buttons
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the original design was to have imported stone and again in system
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they just not a design was a reinforce all uh and sought when material
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i'm gonna freeze quite quickly and honest draw too much um because blues and
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using j. text all these using uh other forms which isn't it
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but what they had was uh the reportage become drops the saving both in terms of the the waste material generated
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the fill material that was used on the structural component whether that was ages and that it will steal
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um all concrete indeed and then i have a a a a total
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comedy oxide saving for the uh for the chosen a geo system
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so for the first one they found a hundred percent saving in waste in that all
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material is on site and school quality material would be able to be used
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you wanna fill material was reduced by sixty seven on the structural components was in ninety six percent saving
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because they weren't using the steel mesh for the gate is they want importing at the stone
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not given an overall total saving of eighty seven percent that's a huge number absolutely jam
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another example of a a highway environment again uh some reinforced i'm so always used in this one
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uh at thirty one percent not quite as dramatic this time but still quite
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a a a a significant um improvement in the in the performance
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the third one was uh another retaining wall based on the gridlock which
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any wall rather than a reinforced concrete wall seventy percent improvement
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for example again reinforced will this to model block wall instead
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of reinforced concrete wall eighty five percent improvement so
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we have we have the reinforced concrete is a significant about a carton a embodied in that material
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and so using the does not increase is uh the of the uh environmental performance significantly
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and the retaining wall or eighty four percent and finally drainage behind the retaining wall seventy three percent
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very quickly through through that first preference big increases what else what about just textiles in particular job for
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the energy tax laws this one is interesting this is the um the flow chart that they used
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that's a look at uh the two two different approaches the conventional traditional approach
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and the just that approach and they looked it's um the mother carbon um dioxide was in the
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uh materials important to fill construction process is on the g. text or
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i came up with this um common for bring saving instead of
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four hundred and fifty four tons three hundred and fourteen pounds
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so significant benefits
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well i think the right hand side of this uh this live what are the benefits to think we get reason just looks
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scotsman back there is a as knows exactly what's going on cost so using the same approach looking at
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the cost of importing the fella cost of the grandmother fell costly construction process costly just like solution
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eight hundred thirty five thousand pounds compared to three hundred and seventy four thousand pounds
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so environmental benefits and cost benefit
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it's like uh some other examples and as i say uses and uh just textiles now so this uh this research was
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carried out um uh on behalf of the european association urges
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that product manufacturers uh by yes you services inserts
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and they looked it's a full cradle to grave like second cycle assessments a longer process
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and they looked it's a an example here all of the use of i i. g. textile filled uh in the road construction
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so the traditional construction was to have a a grandmother filter layer beneath the road
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just next allusions to have a and then seventy five gram a g. textile
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they look there's an area of one meet a lifetime of thirty years um and then
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what they did the scale the environmental impact of various categories two hundred percent
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uh so pretty can't really there's lots of different uh a
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certification is there a global warming potential so since working
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um there is other um items that if we look at people warm potential to start with a
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compared to the traditional solution they found a ninety percent saving on the global warming potential
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uh on the uh q. motive energy demand i got a eighty five percent saving the big big big numbers
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i think six fixated on all the other categories as well but these are the two that i want to uh concentrate on
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they also look at the the construction for road where instead of having
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a a a large foundation because of um for sensitive some great
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they reduce the thickness of the um all the construction again i couldn't
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use digits x. l. but this example lose the l. g. agreed
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um again similar values um so similar values that much less
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of a percent is saving twelve percent and five percent
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other examples level cap application instead of using travelled a drainage recapping application
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is not just in the nick i drainage layer which was um
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for two different ones aegean act and the filament a drainage cool both around funded grams per square meter
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from the sixty sixth sense saving it logo on potential sixty five cents in a c. d.
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that's in the life cycle approach a a retaining wall bigger numbers under same again because the reinforced concrete
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eighty two percent saving of a global warming potential seventy six on the c. d.
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another example uh this is um cradle to end of construction else yeah you have a majority buttons paper
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uh again retaining wall and so whatever you don't agree first can retain well we see these
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big numbers we've got eighty two percent saving comedy oxide and seventy on a c. d.
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road construction says you know yeah g. a grade a ninety
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six percent saving eighty one percent saving very big numbers
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another example this time again from cradle to under construction l. c. i. from uh
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uh roger tell looking a capping in looking it's replacing a one meter thick
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clay liner uh with a um a gym membership protection to textile
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and what's that we can see from this one was that the uh the mode of embody
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carbon in the clay was considered to be significantly more than the average isn't that x.
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at the transport was mall because it's a lot more truck movements and also the construction
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is a lot more so the total uh tons of comedy outside for the clay
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was uh a lot more than the g. m. m. right on budget textile i gave
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a a a total saving of seventy two percent um on the car they oxide
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another journalist and just you need you text all this is a working platform
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uh that was designed to uh i support a at one thousand one and sixty clean even piling rick
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uh on the uh the initial design was that one point to me is imported journal fail
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that was replaced by six and really fill and a uh just textile uh with the text only forcing the yeah
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and again looking at the numbers of the grammar fail uh the body carbon the transport and
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the total i'm forty three percent saving of the of c. o. to this is
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lots of different research them with different people over a period of uh some seven seven
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uses and i'm using different um different techniques but they'll say very similar story
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and the story as well just text doesn't indeed all just not ex uh can produce real benefits
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financial benefits and reduce costs of imported materials and reduce cost of wastage
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shorten environmental benefits from things like last hole age less dust a less noise less air pollution
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but also the long term environmental benefits um from reducing the common for print of that development
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we can seven points money we can improve outlines environmental performance on the reporting targets but also go
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back to the first two slides we can help our government's achieve the card reduction targets
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i thought that knowledge of personal dixon many you know from the university who uh helped with the with some of these lights
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that's references them it'll be in the uh in the presentations if you need to uh find out any information they're all that
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uh i just finally want to uh highlights um is a
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a sustainability a video that was developed by the international
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just in the nick society uh it's only a it's on the website i doubly the doubly

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Introduction and coordination of the presentations
Daniele Cazzuffi, IGS Past President CESI SpA, Italy
April 6, 2017 · 2:06 p.m.
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The contribution of geotextiles to the global sustainability agenda
Russell Jones, IGS President Golder Associates, UK
April 6, 2017 · 2:10 p.m.
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Q&A The contribution of geotextiles to the global sustainability agenda
Russell Jones, IGS President Golder Associates, UK
April 6, 2017 · 2:28 p.m.
The behavior of earthworks with geotextiles after several decades
Jean Pierre Gourc, UJF Grenoble, France
April 6, 2017 · 2:31 p.m.
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Q&A - The behavior of earthworks with geotextiles after several decades
Jean Pierre Gourc, UJF Grenoble, France
April 6, 2017 · 2:51 p.m.
New Horizons for Nonwoven Applications in Geotextiles
Pete Stevens, Terram Solutions Sales Manager, Berry Global
April 6, 2017 · 3 p.m.
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The role of nonwoven geotextiles in geosynthetics and key global markets and trends
George Papagiannis, Sales & Marketing Manager Thrace Nonwovens & Geosynthetics, Greece
April 6, 2017 · 3:30 p.m.
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Q&A - The role of nonwoven geotextiles in geosynthetics and key global markets and trends
George Papagiannis, Sales & Marketing Manager Thrace Nonwovens & Geosynthetics, Greece
April 6, 2017 · 3:38 p.m.
Correct design and proper applications of geocomposite drainage systems for landfills capping
Piergiorgio Recalcati, Technical Director Tenax SpA, Italy
April 6, 2017 · 3:41 p.m.
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Conclusions
Daniele Cazzuffi, IGS Past President CESI SpA, Italy
April 6, 2017 · 4:01 p.m.
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