![]() * To identify opportunities and challenges to integrating EPS into infrastructure practice (Workshop 2–3). * To identify EPS areas where discipline-specific terminology and lexicon were creating barriers to comprehension (Workshop 1). The authors asked: “What is the role of Ecological Performance Standards (EPS) for encouraging regenerative performance in infrastructure”? This included three research objectives, with methods also noted: While there is limited knowledge regarding ‘how’ regenerative performance could be integrated into infrastructure, this paper aims to contribute to the body of knowledge exploring how an ecosystem services approach can support infrastructure sustainability schemes to shift towards benchmarking for regenerative performance. Using ecosystem system services as a proxy for ecosystem health, this includes investigating how we may design and construct ‘built systems’ that meet or exceed the functional performance of an ecosystem. The EPS approach looks to nature for guidance on how to measure success and high-functioning performance in the built environment. It is informed by the field of biomimicry (innovation inspired by nature), which encourages learning from biology and ecology to identify approaches from living systems that may help to address human challenges. Įcological Performance Standards (EPS) is a performance benchmarking methodology that builds on existing ecosystem services assessment, and that could support the infrastructure sector in shifting towards, and measuring, regenerative performance. ![]() With a rapid mainstreaming agenda in mind, and in pursuit of Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs), it is therefore pertinent to consider how this evolution can be encouraged through the renewal of mainstreaming mechanisms such as industry frameworks and standards. More recent trends towards regenerative development highlight the further evolution of these expectations, although the regenerative field is still emergent. These sustainability frameworks support the mainstreaming of triple-bottom-line performance improvements, with an eventual end-goal of 100% less damage, or ‘sustainability’. There are existing infrastructure sustainability rating schemes such as CEEQUAL, Envision, IS Rating Scheme and the Living Community Challenge that vary in structure and scoping. A range of infrastructure sustainability frameworks are gaining momentum internationally, and show early progress towards addressing global environmental and social impacts of infrastructure construction and operation. Such interfaces span from conceptualisation to design, construction, operation and decommissioning. While there has been an emerging international focus on sustainability in recent years, there is a critical need for methods and techniques that would facilitate sustainable appraisal and decision-making at the various project phases. ![]() Global trends towards sustainable development are evident in shifting performance expectations from ‘business as usual’ to incorporating targeted sustainable practices throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure assets and networks. Retrieved from Īuthor(s): Samantha Hayes (corresponding author) Cheryl Desha Savindi Caldera Mark Gibbs APA style: A Transformed Approach for Benchmarking the Performance of ‘Sustainable’ Infrastructure.A Transformed Approach for Benchmarking the Performance of ‘Sustainable’ Infrastructure." Retrieved from MLA style: "A Transformed Approach for Benchmarking the Performance of ‘Sustainable’ Infrastructure." The Free Library.
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