Carbon Reduction Digital Twin (CReDiT ) for Brownfield Remediation

用于布朗菲尔德修复的碳减排数字双胞胎（CreDiT）该项目旨在简化布朗菲尔德开发地点修复所涉及的流程。目前的管制规划做法往往很冗长，需要进行现场调查、风险评估、补救和验证，以确保土地适合再利用。这会产生成本并增加时间延迟。由此产生的现场调查报告通常是广泛的，虽然信息被扫描并存储在规划数据库中（通常是硬纸格式），但不会自动整理，也不会进行环境研究分析。此外，现有的发展框架并不是实现可持续性目标的最佳选择，通常更倾向于节省成本和时间而不是减少碳，浪费了整合早期干预的好处的机会，这一好处是公认的碳减少曲线所强调的。与我们在Leap Environmental的非学术主持人合作，本研究的目的是开发一种数字孪生方法，作为重新评估拟议修复过程并利用现有数字技术的强大工具。这将提供价值工程设计，并更好地了解设计选择对项目碳足迹和可持续性的影响。这将集中开发商的设计和资源，满足现场调查、风险评估和补救计划（针对政府或私人开发商）的要求，并改善地方政府发展战略的规划和监管指导。通过在项目早期（在购买前或规划应用阶段）应用这种思维，它可以使客户能够审查整个系统的可持续性;使项目设计和补救方案的彻底重新思考，并最大限度地减少碳排放。这反过来也可以通过材料再利用和相关的运输减少提供额外的经济和社会效益。该项目的一个主要特点是与利益相关者的互动，特别是LEAP Environmental内部的专家-使用该公司内部的软件和设施以及使用正在进行的补救项目的现场数据和报告来开发研究思路和应用程序。这项工作也将得到萨里大学土木与环境工程系同事（特别是Susan Hughes博士，Donya Hajializadeh博士和Mike Mulheron博士）的支持，他们将受益于数字框架和数据的更广泛应用，然后可以支持其他附带研究提案。其他对成果感兴趣的主要合作伙伴包括地方政府官员和规划监管机构。

Carbon Reduction Digital Twin (CreDiT) for Brownfield Remediation The project is aimed at stream-lining the processes involved in the remediation of brownfield development sites. Current regulatory planning practices are often lengthy, requiring site investigation, risk assessment, remediation and validation to ensure the land is suitable for re- use. This incurs cost and adds time delays. The resulting site investigation reports are usually extensive and whilst the information is scanned and stored in planning databases (often in hard paper format), it is not automatically collated, nor analysed for environmental research. Furthermore, existing development frameworks are not optimised for achieving sustainability targets, typically favouring cost and time-savings over carbon reduction, wasting the opportunity to integrate the benefits of early intervention highlighted by the well-established carbon reduction curve. Working together with our non-academic hosts at Leap Environmental, the aim of this research is to develop a digital twin approach as a powerful tool to re-evaluate the proposed remediation processes and take advantage of available digital technology. This will provide value engineering design and an improved understanding of the impact of design choices on a project's carbon footprint and sustainability profile. This would focus the design and resources for developers in terms of requirements for site investigations, risk assessments and remediation plans (for government or private developers) and improve planning and regulatory guidance for local government development strategy. By applying such thinking early within a project (at pre-purchase or the planning application stage) it could enable clients to review the sustainability of the total system; enable radical rethinking of project design and remediation options, and maximise carbon savings. This in turn may also provide added economic and social benefits through material reuse and associated transport reduction. A key feature of this project is the interaction with the stakeholders, in particular, the experts within LEAP Environmental - developing the research ideas and applications using software and facilities within this company and using site data and reports from ongoing remediation projects. The work will also be supported by colleagues (specifically, Dr Susan Hughes, Dr Donya Hajializadeh and Dr Mike Mulheron) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Surrey, who will benefit from the wider application of the digital framework and data which can then support other spin-off research proposals. Other key partners for whom the outcomes would be of interest include local government officers and planning regulators.