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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 wanted to help their local community, by donating and planting 1000 trees at the local primary school. They also donated the eco-friendly guards and mulch to help the saplings grow. The trees were planted to transform a section of the schools field into a wellbeing area for the students, creating a quiet and private area for students to…
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…
Large-scale projects should work with the local community to ensure the project leaves a positive legacy on the surrounding environment. See the examples below for how a flood alleviation scheme achieved this: The site team approached several universities, including Teesside, Northumbria, Leeds and Leeds Beckett to provide designs for a seal hide. Originally the idea of the seal hide came…