Skip to main content

Resources

Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Environmental impact of construction transport and the effects of building certification schemes
2023-07-21
Lifecycle stage: Transportation
Policy challenge: Embodied carbon
Solutions: Improve

Construction logistics offer useful solutions to improve both the productivity and sustainability of the industry. The purpose of this paper is to investigate, in detail, the environmental impact of construction transport and whether the building certification scheme for a construction project has any influence on its transport arrangements. The analysis in this paper is based on a multiple case study of 40 Swedish projects. The results show that construction projects with better environmental ratings generated less emissions from construction transport.