TPA’s carbon calculator
8 August 2023
Temporary access equipment provider TPA has launched an online calculator to enable contractors to compare the carbon savings of portable roadways over aggregate and stone roads.
Believed to be the first of its kind in the industry, the interactive tool gives customers and businesses a quick insight into how they can reduce their CO2 emissions and calculates how many trees the savings would equate to.
TPA’s research shows that a portable roadway generally gives more than an 80 per cent carbon saving compared to a stone access road.
An average saving is calculated once the user submits details of the area of temporary access they require. They can then request a full report tailored to their own site which includes a carbon savings certificate, and enquire about TPA’s range of temporary vehicular or pedestrian trackways.
The company estimates that in 2022 it helped customers to prevent more than 10 million kilograms of carbon emissions by installing over one million square metres of portable roadways.
The new carbon assessment tool also incorporates factors such as production and disposal of materials and delivery of materials to and from site.
Another Vp plc subsidiary, Groundforce Shorco, recently made its own online calculator for temporary works designs available to the shoring industry free of charge.
Vp itself has pledged to become net zero by 2050 at the latest, and says it has achieved a 55 per cent reduction in carbon intensity since 2010.
TPA Managing Director David Walkden said: “Our new carbon calculator is a must-have for anyone serious, like us, about minimising our impact on the environment. Rental equipment is inherently sustainable due to the fact that it is re-used over and over again; however, our aluminium roadways are fully recyclable at the end of their life and are optimised to be transported efficiently, requiring less than five per cent of the volume of transport movements when compared to hauling stone and aggregates to cover the equivalent area.”
