Road surface treatment specialist Asphalt Group has entered a partnership with Asphalt-IQ and will use an innovative system to collect carbon data directly from work sites.
Asphalt-IQ provides an easy-to-use Scope-3 carbon reporting solution for the highways sector, meeting both PAS 2080:2023 and ADEPT CCAS requirements. Asphalt-IQ is based on client configured app that capture daily worksite information. Using either a smart tag placed into the road, or a smart card tap, the site location is used for transportation distances, ensuring the final carbon number is auditable and available for reporting when needed.
Asphalt Group will use the company’s Carbon-IQ smartphone app which enables the calculation and GPS recording of carbon emissions from road surface treatment and surfacing works. Activated by the Smart A-Tag and completed in less than 60 seconds, Carbon-IQ is the fastest and most practical asphalt carbon calculator on the market.
Earlier this year Asphalt Group achieved PAS 2080 verification, becoming one of the first companies in the highways sector to meet the environmental standard.
Asphalt Group will use the solution 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. The data collected will help with decision making from season to season.
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.
“As a leading road repair specialist, we are proud to be one of the first companies in the sector to achieve PAS 2080 verification.
Going forward we will continue to help the industry deliver carbon and cost savings, by providing long lasting solutions that are designed to make roads last longer.”
Gary Cook, Founder and CEO at Asphalt-IQ, said:
“Accurate carbon emissions data is essential to drive towards net zero, and the Asphalt Group-IQ app delivers this effortlessly.
“The Asphalt Group-IQ carbon management system enables instant carbon reporting to be delivered to clients at the push of a button. Real reports, real data, in real time.
“Our partnership with Asphalt Group sets the benchmark for carbon data collection and accounting for the highways industry. No more inaccurate, generic, carbon databases and assumptions – just practical customised data straight from the site.”
Image courtesy of Asphalt-IQ.
