Carbon Reduction Digital Twin (CReDiT ) for Brownfield Remediation

棕地整治的碳减排数字孪生（CreDiT）该项目旨在简化棕地开发用地整治过程。目前的监管规划实践往往是冗长的，需要现场调查、风险评估、补救和验证，以确保土地适合再使用。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），但它不会自动整理，也不会为环境研究进行分析。此外，现有的发展框架没有优化实现可持续性目标，通常倾向于节省成本和时间，而不是减少碳排放，浪费了整合早期干预的好处的机会，这些好处是由完善的碳减排曲线所突出的。我们与Leap环境公司的非学术主持人合作，研究的目的是开发一种数字孪生方法，作为一种强大的工具，重新评估拟议的修复过程，并利用现有的数字技术。这将提供有价值的工程设计，并提高对设计选择对项目碳足迹和可持续性影响的理解。这将集中开发商的设计和资源，以满足（政府或私人开发商）地盘调查、风险评估和补救计划的要求，并为地方政府的发展策略提供更好的规划和监管指导。通过在项目早期（在预购或规划应用阶段）应用这种思维，它可以使客户审查整个系统的可持续性；对项目设计和补救方案进行彻底的反思，最大限度地减少碳排放。反过来，这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。该项目的一个关键特点是与利益相关者的互动，特别是与LEAP环境公司的专家的互动——利用公司内部的软件和设施，利用正在进行的修复项目的现场数据和报告，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的同事们（特别是Susan Hughes博士、Donya Hajializadeh博士和Mike Mulheron博士）的支持，他们将从数字框架和数据的广泛应用中受益，这些数据可以支持其他衍生研究提案。对其结果感兴趣的其他关键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.