Abstract:
Road construction projects highly depends upon heavy machinery which are operated through diesel, diesel consumption is burdening natural reservoirs and also polluting environment through high carbon footprints. To cope with this problem, we have to replace fossil fuel with renewable fuel which are environment friendly. Different types of renewable energy can help out construction industry from execution to operational phase, the only condition is that the project needs to be venue bound. When we talk about those projects which has far more spread like highways construction, we need a type of renewable energy which should not be place bound and can be moved easily from one place to another. That’s why we are replacing diesel with Biodiesel. The world is moving toward sustainable energy as fossil fuels reservoirs are shrinking due to huge consumption and not environment friendly too. In 2018, the buildings and construction sector used 36% of final energy and 39% of energy and process-related CO2 emissions. Municipal biomass is also rising, predicted to reach 2.2 billion tons in 2025. In order to reduce carbon footprint, incorporate usage of municipal waste and give environment friendly solution to road construction projects we can replace diesel by biodiesel. In order to study the barriers to the usage of biodiesel in road construction several questionnaire surveys were conducted to shortlist literature-based barriers. Through experts’ consultation Fuzzy DEMATEL analysis of finalized 14 barriers were done and Policy recommendations are also produced on the basis of the results.
