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Responsible Social Procurement, Reducing Energy Consumption & Increasing Asset Life Cycles to Drive Sustainability Growth in Rail

 

26th -27th September 2023,  London 

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Day 1 Agenda

7:50 AM

Chair Opening Remarks

8:00 AM

SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY, LOOKING LONG TERM BEYOND JUST COST TO MEET SCOPE 3 TARGETS

STRATEGIC OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION: Realising Scope 3 Targets, Implementing Strategies for Cooperation, Balancing the Trade-Off Between Sustainability, Cost and Delivery Timescales To Keep Operations Profitable

• Best practice establishing close cooperation with suppliers to introduce new requirements on scope three reporting and emission reduction to realise your scope 3 targets
• Implementing systems to support the cooperation and transparency of data to improve sustainable decision making in line with your organisational targets
• What processes should operators and infrastructure be implementing and considering meeting sustainability targets in scope 1 & 2 in the short term
• How are rail companies building up the internal capability and resources to measure and visualize carbon emission in rail products

8:45 AM

CASE STUDY: Reducing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions, Working with Suppliers to Increase Transparency and Accuracy of Data and Implementing Systems for Reporting & Tracking

• What strategies are rail companies developing to reduce scope 3 emissions in the supply chain, improving procurement, specification at the design stage and keeping assets in optimum condition
• The value of collaborating with suppliers to produce transparent and accurate data on the scope 3 emissions for all goods procured, knowing where it comes from and how it was produced
• Building a common framework around standards and tools to help rail organisations and suppliers measure their sustainability progress and improve transparency of data from rail products in service
• What tools are available to operators to measure emissions internally and within the supply chain including visualization of decarbonization strategy and ESG ratings,

9:05 AM

OPTIMISNG ASSET MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING SYSTEMS IN RAIL, GOING BEYOND FINANCIAL FORCASTING TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL COST OF ASSETS

CASE STUDY: The Link Between World Class Asset Management and Sustainability, Increasing Asset Life Cycles to Improve Sustainability Using Current Asset Management Frameworks

• Tracking component life cycles to determine the emissions related to every component, aligning asset management and sustainability within business processes
• Converting technical documentation into a digital asset register to improve data analysis,
• Understanding true capacity and demand in your infrastructure to optimise business analysis and decision making
• Optimising the interface between operators and infrastructure owners to increase data sharing and improve asset management leading to increase asset lifecycles and reduce cost in parts and labour

9:30 AM

MORNING NETWORKING BREAK

10:00 AM

PANEL DISCUSSION: Best Practice Managing Your Own Assets, Finding the Right Suppliers, Implementing New Processes to Drive Asset Management Sustainability and Growth

• Benchmarking the supply chain, working with suppliers, research institutions, universities with a maturity in the field of asset management in rail or similar industries.
• Focusing on right metrics, incorporating metrics from multiple factors to build a holistic view of your network and developing a common approach to sustainability
• Best practice optimising your current asset management processes using limited resources to drive incremental improvements in maintenance and operations
• How are operators implementing innovative technologies to improve sustainability in their asset management, business processes and ERP systems

10:45 AM

Case Study: Forecasting Whole Life Cycle Asset Costs, Optimising Data Quality, Transparency and Availability to Reduce the Ecological and Social life cycle Emissions in Rail to Meet Sustainability Goals

• What tools and software are rail companies implementing to complement financial flows of data, measuring multiple flows of data to build the ecological picture of each asset within your network
• Working with suppliers to determine actual product life cycles cost with the ecological and social dimension, knowing the amount of recycled or reused materials in your products to form a more holistic view of price
• Incorporating sustainability data reporting in enterprise asset management systems, building an ecological ledger to enable processes and KPI’s steering
• Inputting data from diverse sources including utilities, meteorological in ERP systems to encompass co2 emissions other information sources required to reduce cost and improve sustainability

11:20 AM

IMPLEMENTING NEW STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN RAIL

FIRESIDE CHAT: Reducing Energy Consumption in New Rolling Stock & Legacy Fleets, Working with OEMs to Develop New Solutions to Reduce the Energy Consumptions of Rolling Stock In Operations

• What are the limitations in introducing new technologies to improve the power consumption of legacy rolling stock, considering the investment time frames and return of investment on older fleets
• Improving systems designs, introducing driver assistance or ATO to improve braking and acceleration to reduce electricity consumption from rolling stock
• Working with suppliers to optimise spare parts management for fleet maintenance activities, improving recycling and re-use of materials and tackling the biggest contributor in reducing scope 3 emissions
• Ensuring quality of wheels and dampers and bogeys are in peak condition to reduce the levels of noise informational from rolling stock in normal operations

12:00 PM

LUNCH NETWORKING BREAK

1:00 PM

AUDIENCE ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Decreasing Consumption in All Aspects of Railway Operations to Drive Efficiencies, Prolonging the Service Life of All Assets to Reduce Cost and Deliver Sustainable Benefits in Rail

• Driving efficiencies in the service life of current assets rather than buying new products, what processes and technologies are operators implementing to maximise asset lifecycles
• Implementing predictive maintenance practices to reduce cost, parts, labour and energy consumption in infrastructure and rolling stock operations
• Should TSI’s be linked more to a sustainability criterion to limit unnecessary safety requirement changes to equipment and reduce standards driven obsolescence
• What solutions are infrastructure owner implementing to reduce energy consumption and cost of running their buildings including, heating and lighting

1:30 PM

CASE STUDY: Strategies to Incentivise Greater Collaboration Between Operators and Infrastructure Owners, An Integrated Energy Management Approach to Reducing Cost and Energy Consumption in Rail

• Optimising specifications and validation for digitally automated systems to increase energy management efficiencies in rail
• Improving levels cooperation and investment between infra managers and operators to implement an integrated energy management approach to reduce cost and energy consumption in rail
• Investing in additional on-board and infrastructure energy storage devices, what is the level of investment required to retrofit older trains, managing who is using and returning this braking energy back to the network
• Creating the right incentives to increase investment on energy storage, using energy metering to improve transparency between operators and owners on storage and feeding back energy to the network

2:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION: How Are Infrastructure Owners Planning Investments in Renewables, Accessing the Benefits and Pay Back to Build a Business Case for Green Investment in Rail

• How owners using building stock energy audits, energy performance assessments to reduce their energy consumption to meet sustainability targets
• What the benefits and the payback for investing in self-renewal or renewables within the rail infrastructure network
• Intelligent use of IT equipment to reduce non-renewable resources, optimising power supplies and energy consumption to deliver big savings in energy efficiency
• How can infrastructure owners minimise routes clearance work even further to promote electrification of their networks

2:30 PM

EVENING NETWORKING BREAK

3:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION: Optimising Design to in New Building Projects, Civil Works, Collaborating with Suppliers to Develop Sustainable Production Processes to Reduce Embedded Carbon in Concrete & Steel

• How is the industry working with construction companies to develop more sustainable approaches to producing concrete, increasing volumes of recycled concrete available for construction projects
• What are the challenges in producing low carbon steel, how do we reduce the embedded carbon in steel produced for use in building new railway tracks and renewal projects
• What new processes and innovations are owners using to minimise the use of water on construction sites
• Changing the mindset of project planners to drive sustainability, introducing new industry standards to guide the use of materials in construction projects

3:45 PM

Part 1: INCREASING RECYCLABILITY AND RE-USE OF MATERIAL IN RAIL PRODUCTS TO DELIVER CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN RAIL SUPPLY CHAINS

CASE STUDY: Leveraging Digital Twins and Emerging Technologies to Enable a Circular Economy in Rail, Innovating To Achieve Regional Sustainability and Decarbonization Goals

• Examine how a circular economy in rail can improve parts availability, reduce the flow of materials and carbon emissions in rial maintenance and operations
• Setting limits with suppliers on the levels of recyclability and re-used materials in their products to lower the co2 emission in the material inflow in rail
• Developing a regional supply chain, implementing additive manufacturing and nearshoring your supply chain to build supply chain resilience and reduce transportation and associated emission
• How can digital technologies like BIM enable rail companies to develop a circular economy in their supply chains

4:20 PM

CASE STUDY: Developing A Circular Economy for Waste Materials Including Spent Ballast, Redundant Rails, Signalling Equipment or CND Waste Products from Renewals and New Building Projects

• how can we build circularity into spent ballast redundant rails and CND waste products increase circularity and more beneficial reuses within the railway environment
• Is there a market for concrete sleepers other than crushing them, what can be done to improve the secondary use of ballast if they're not suitable for a railway application
• Improving the circular economy for lineside assets, what are the re-use applications for the materials from signalling equipment and cabling when considering these materials might also be obsolete
• What can rail learn from other industries in improving material re-use and reducing carbon in big construction projects to improve sustainability

5:00 PM

END OF DAY ONE

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