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The site team have displayed a visual environmental community board to provide knowledge and awareness to the community and workforce on how long different materials take to biodegrade, with an aim to help protect and improve the local environment. This includes materials such as paper, cardboard, orange peel, chewing gum, plastic wrappers, cigarette buts, plastic bags, wet wipes, cans and…
This contractor has a workforce appointed Environmental and Sustainability Champion who is responsible for promoting their environmental and sustainability policies and priorities day-to-day on site. They arrange for the champion to complete the Considerate Constructors Scheme’s Care for the Environment e-learning course. The Champion is then responsible for periodically encouraging others to engage in environmental initiatives. For example, they recently…
This contractor has established a ‘Carbon Focus Group’ to develop an inclusive approach to generating discussions at all levels in the company. The new focus group has already developed a carbon specific toolbox talk that has been rolled out on site to educate and inspire the workforce to think about ways of reducing carbon. A number of initiatives were discussed…
As part of this sites drive to reduce carbon in line with their 2030 and 2040 commitments, the site participated in avcarbon reduction group video, discussing previous innovations including Thermal Lightweight Aggregate. This video was originally been made available for internal use but has now been delivered and cascaded to their subcontractors working on the project and the wider contractor’s supply…
This year the contractor is taking part in the EarthWatch Thames Water Blitz. This is a citizen science campaign to collect as many water measurements as possible, over a short period of time, across the River Thames catchment area. Earthwatch Europe has been running bi-annual WaterBlitzes for seven years, including in Sweden, Italy, France, Ireland and Luxembourg. Volunteers collect hundreds…