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Sustainability is often an element that informs decisions made during the planning, programming, and design phases of highway construction projects. However, the construction phase of a highway project is also an opportunity to advance sustainability.

The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 916: Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook provides clear and practical information on what constitutes sustainability in the context of highway construction and how to evaluate any proposed construction practice for its sustainability potential.

The guidebook supports implementation by describing ways to explicitly advance sustainability in procurement and contracting and how to develop a sustainability management plan for the construction phase.

An overview of NCHRP Research Report 916 is provided in this PowerPoint presentation. A separate publication, NCHRP Web-Only Document 262: Sustainable Highway Construction, describes the research process and outcomes used to develop NCHRP Research Report 916.

A summary of NCHRP Web-Only Document 262 is provided in this PowerPoint presentation.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25698.

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248 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25698
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Front Matter i-viii
Summary 1-2
Part 1 - Sustainable Highway Construction Guidance 3-4
Chapter 1 - Introduction 5-8
Chapter 2 - Background 9-14
Chapter 3 - Sustainable Highway Construction Practices 15-19
Chapter 4 - Using Sustainability as a Criterion to Evaluate Highway Construction Practices 20-22
Chapter 5 - Procuring Sustainability 23-25
Chapter 6 - Contracting Sustainability 26-32
References 33-33
Glossary 34-40
Part 2 - Sustainable Highway Construction Practices 41-42
Chapter 7 - Construction and Sustainability Framework 43-45
Chapter 8 - How to Read Chapter 9 46-49
Chapter 9 - Sustainable Construction Practices 50-142

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