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Recycled plastic road construction technologist

Recycled plastic road construction technologist

Profession will appear after 2025-2030

Trends

Growing popularity of "green building" Waste of natural raw materials for building materials production

Construction

He knows and is able to apply various technologies for using plastic (commercial and domestic use) as an additive to asphalt concrete mixture in the production of road surfaces. Understands existing technologies such as those from MacRebur® or Green Mantra. He knows and is able to apply the technology of recycling plastic waste for the production of hollow slabs, from which the roadbed is laid (for example, the technology of the VolkerWessels company).

The novelty of the profession: for the active use of this technology, one important condition is necessary - an established and working system for the separate collection of household and commercial waste. The technologist cannot directly influence this process, however, the very possibility of introducing new technology depends on the efforts of citizens and local executive bodies.

Key competencies:

Higher or specialized secondary education in the specialty “construction of highways and airfields”.
Professionally versed in the features of the materials used for the production of road surfaces, has the skills to make high-quality mixtures for road surfaces.

Over-professional skills

Intersectoral communication consists in understanding technologies, processes and the market situation in various related and non-adjacent industries, cross-functional and cross-disciplinary interaction. More and more advanced products are created at the junction of different industries and specialists need the ability to understand several areas of knowledge at the same time. This competency allows you to learn faster, take the best from different fields, and through this mutual enrichment, ensure development within your field. Those with such competence can create unexpected, unique, breakthrough solutions.

Intersectoral communication

Project and process management includes the ability to focus on the project goals, the ability to competently plan and organize team actions for the effective implementation of tasks, the ability to assess existing risks and opportunities for all parties to the interaction. A specialist who has this skill knows how to properly organize the work on the project within the specified funding framework, and is able to correctly distribute the work in order to meet the deadlines set by the project. such a specialist is constantly learning something new, is not afraid to make mistakes, is able to generate new effective ways to solve problems and tasks. the demand for specialists with knowledge and tools in the field of project management will increase, as project activities are considered by companies as the most important factor in their effective development

Project and process management

Lean manufacturing is an enterprise management concept based on the constant search, reduction or elimination of losses. Losses are understood to mean those actions, processes or operations that consume resources (human, temporary, material, etc.), but do not add value to the end or intermediate consumer.

Lean manufacturing changes the approach to managing the enterprise’s efficiency from extensive (working more and faster) to intensive (working more efficiently, that is, doing only what is necessary and not doing what can be done without).

Professionals with lean competencies will be able to increase the efficiency of departments or enterprises as a whole without attracting large investments. The relevance of lean management methods is growing because traditional management methods have already reached their peak, further business development will increasingly focus on intensive development and lean improvement methods.

Lean

Environmental thinking is focused on achieving harmony between business and the environment. A business cycle is already developing from creation to disposal of a product, and not just its sale and consumption. Environmental thinking puts health and sustainable development at the top of the list.

The importance of environmental thinking is increasing due to the fact that industrial development has reached the limit and all further models of sustainable growth of society, the economy and business should be built on the basis of mutual interests with nature, the ecosystem, its maintenance and development.

Specialists with environmental thinking skills will be able to solve such problems as: respect for resources, achieving zero emission of harmful substances into the environment, waste management and use of secondary resources