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It is important to protect and preserve the natural environment. Construction sites can utilise their knowledge and skills of protecting the environment to engage with children, to pass on their experience to the younger generation and raise awareness of important environmental issues. Below is an example of how a site has raised awareness amongst the younger generation: To raise awareness…
Construct AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses natural language processing to create humanlike conversational dialogue. The language model can respond to questions and compose various written content, including articles, social media posts, essays, code and emails. By combining their expertise in engineering, construction project management and technology, they set out to create an artificial intelligence platform to…
This project has a range of flora and fauna that must be protected during the construction works. It is not possible to barrier off all areas as this would impact on the natural movement of animals and so protection of the site habitats requires cooperation of all contractors. They have created information cards and placed them in key locations along…
The project team are working with the lift and concrete frame contractor to develop an innovative way of constructing the lift shaft to tighter, more onerous tolerances. The team have designed a steel frame which will be constructed at the base of the lift shaft and house six lasers pointing vertically up the shaft. The lasers are situated in key…
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…
Canary Wharf Contractor’s New District project is surrounded by the historic docklands and as such is home to a wide variety of wildlife. A number of physical protections measures have been put in place to minimise the disruption and potential harm to surrounding ecosystems, however it was also deemed necessary to educate those working on the project about the breadth…