Driving a Sustainable Future at the IRF World Congress 2024
As climate change intensifies, our infrastructure faces unprecedented challenges. Extreme weather events—hurricanes, floods, heatwaves—disrupt transportation, wreak economic havoc, and endanger lives. Around 50 million people in the world are killed or injured every year because the roads aren’t safe enough.
Digitalisation brings an opportunity in the climate crisis: harnessing advanced digital solutions and innovative strategies to design resilient road networks that withstand climate impacts and ensure reliable transport and societal stability.
ORIS Materials Intelligence, the first construction materials knowledge platform for low-impact infrastructure, is at the forefront of this transformation. Leveraging AI and data science, ORIS empowers the construction sector with critical insights for planning sustainable, resilient, and cost-efficient road networks.
With its powerful platform, ORIS helps point out scenarios to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by up to a 50% reduction and the circularity of natural resources by up to 80%. These figures show road construction projects can indeed limit their impact on our environment and ensure sustainability.
Oris is excited to announce its participation in the high-level IRF World Congress 2024, a gathering of road and mobility professionals at the cutting-edge of the road sector.
From 15 to 18 October 2024, in Istanbul, industry leaders, policymakers, and experts will converge to share insights, discuss trends, and showcase innovations shaping the future of road mobility.
One of this year’s congress themes, “Resilient Road Networks for Resilient Transport & Societies,” aligns perfectly with one of the solutions Oris is developing, its Climate Resilience Methodology.
It embodies this vision by assessing climate risks and designing solutions to withstand extreme weather and long-term climate shifts while securing socio-economic impacts.
For ORIS, climate resilience represents our need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. For infrastructure, this means taking into account the current status of the network. The platform’s goal is to assess its vulnerabilities regarding climate change, vulnerabilities that could ultimately impact the population nearby.
A multi-criteria platform like ORIS enables road designers to fully visualise a network’s vulnerabilities and act accordingly by making informed decisions.
ORIS methodology calculates a unified resilience score based on three key factors:
- Climate screening (heat, flooding, frost/thaw cycles),
- Infrastructure vulnerability (road condition)
- Social impact (user delay, surrounding population)
Climate screening identifies potential impacts, infrastructure vulnerabilities highlight weak points under climate stress, and social factors assess the broader societal significance.
In Central Asia, this solution appraised a regional network. In just a few weeks, 7.765 km of road networks were assessed to determine their most critical parts:
- 25% of roads were identified at a high to extreme risk of exposure to climate change
- 30% of the local population nearby could be affected
- Rising temperatures may weaken flexible pavement roads, especially with frequent freeze-thaw cycles
- Flood-prone areas were identified to pose threats to rural access to essential facilities
Join ORIS at booth 123 to learn more about the Paris Agreement, which focuses on strongly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to ensure we reach the 1.5-degree trajectory. In parallel, we need to act to adapt to the effects of climate change as they are already visible. This means we can’t overlook road networks’ climate resilience.
That’s why a platform like ORIS is strategic for decision-makers, our approach, participation in panel discussions, and exploration of case studies. Engage with Oris and their stakeholders to share ideas and explore potential collaborations.
The IRF World Congress 2024 isn’t just about learning—it’s about action. We urge all attendees to actively shape the future of mobility.
At ORIS Materials Intelligence, they believe that building a sustainable future is a collective journey.
This shows through the company’s commitment and values. ORIS has become a driven-mission company that takes action on 4 pillars:
- Provide digitised knowledge of the impact of the choice of construction materials used in infrastructure.
- Enable the construction infrastructure sector to measure and optimise the environmental impact of materials.
- Contribute to inclusive transport networks in line with global development objectives.
- Build equitable and balanced growth through an HR approach that cares about the well-being of its employees and a healthy relationship at work.
We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul, where we can work together to create a resilient and sustainable world.
Register now at irf2024.irfofficial.org and join us on this exciting journey. Let’s act now for a sustainable road network, one road at a time.
