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India is a country where enormous natural resources are utilized for large infrastructure and construction projects which leads to environmental impacts. Every year, due to the consumption of enormous natural resources for large infrastructure and construction projects, more energy is consumed which has a negative impact on the environment. Though modern construction techniques and low-cost effective materials were utilized to mitigate Energy usage, the volume of impact reduction is not efficient. The present paper focuses on the planning and formulation of Environmental Management System (EMS) to reduce the impact of energy consumption patterns in large infrastructure and construction projects. The planning of EMS is done based on the Energy usage in mega level construction projects under the environmental impact checklist provided by the Ministry of Environment, and Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, and the Formulation is done through Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) techniques that implement EMS to reduce the impact due to energy conservation in large infrastructure and construction projects. Using these techniques, the implementation of EMS is needed in order to reduce the impact due to enormous energy consumption in large infrastructure and construction projects. It was concluded that the material loss was reduced from 4 to 1.2% before and after the implementation of MFCA which simultaneously mitigates the energy consumption pattern in large infrastructure projects. Finally, the Planning and Formulation of EMS gives a solution to reduce the impacts caused due to energy consumption in large infrastructure and construction projects.
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Akin, C., Vandhana Devi, V., Samuel Devadoss, R. (2021). Mitigation of Energy Consumption Impact by Planning and Formulation of Environmental Management System for Indian Infrastructure Projects. In: Ramanagopal, S., Gali, M., Venkataraman, K. (eds) Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5101-7_13
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