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5 Sustainability is a modern word for an ancient concept that expresses the human desire to achieve health and happiness within the context of a healthy planet over the long term. While the idea is quite old, the use of the word sustainability to describe it has become more common in the last 30 years.
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6 Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook 1.2 Scope 1.2.1 Sustainability Within This Guidebook This guidebook addresses sustainable highway construction practices that can be implemented now, meaning those practices that (1) influence how the construction process is delivered, procured, and specified, or (2)
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Introduction 7 1.3 Organization This guidebook is organized into two parts -- Part 1: Sustainable Highway Construction Guidance and Part 2: Sustainable Highway Construction Practices. Part 1: Sustainable Highway Construction Guidance has the following chapters: • Chapter 1: Introduction outlines the purpose, scope, organization, and use of this guidebook, • Chapter 2: Background offers a practical definition of what sustainability means for this guidebook and other information about sustainability, • Chapter 3: Sustainable Highway Construction Practices is a summary of sustainable highway construction practices organized by highway construction categories, • Chapter 4: Sustainability as Criteria to Evaluate Highway Construction Practices outlines a short procedure for evaluating proposed construction practices for sustainability, • Chapter 5: Procuring Sustainability provides guidance on how to procure sustainable highway construction practices, • Chapter 6: Contracting Sustainability offers suggestions on how to implement the recommendations in this guidebook as part of organizational change, • References, and • Glossary.
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8 Sustainable Highway Construction Guidebook not included in this guidebook. In some cases, Chapter 3 and Chapter 9 can be used to identify practices already used that may not have been thought of as SCPs, but actually are and can be communicated as such.
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