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CEEQUAL – the ICE-led awards scheme that assesses the environmental quality of civil engineering projects – has announced that the construction value of projects that have been or are being assessed under CEEQUAL passed £2bn at the end of October, and now stands at £2.07bn. Its ‘second billion’ took just four months, after passing the £1bn mark in June this year.
You can catch up on further CEEQUAL Progress by visiting the team at CIVILS 2006 – Stand L20, upstairs near NCE.
Since CEEQUAL’s launch in 2003, almost 70 project teams have now signed up for their projects to be assessed under CEEQUAL. Fourteen projects have so far completed the scheme and received Awards. CEEQUAL assesses how well a project team has dealt with the environmental issues they faced. Minimum regulatory compliance equates roughly to a zero score; to receive an award, projects must score at least 25% and an 'excellent' rating is achieved by exceeding 75%.
Recent CEEQUAL Awards made include:
• the remediation and preparation of the site of the Cardiff International
Sports Village,
• the A470 improvement between Dolwyddelan and Pont Yr Afanc in North
Wales,
• Carran Hill Water Treatment Works, Crossmaglen, NI
• A689 Durham County Council Crook Bypass, Durham and
• Snaresbrook to South Woodford Embankment Stabilisation.
CEEQUAL Chief Executive Roger Venables said: "To positively influence the activities of another £1bn worth of civil engineering construction so quickly is a great encouragement for all involved in the awards scheme and great credit to those undertaking important civil engineering projects in the UK with the intention of improving their environmental performance."
To find out more about CEEQUAL – and especially the projects that have received Awards – visit www.ceequal.com or contact the CEEQUAL Scheme Management Team at CIRIA, Classic House, 174-180 Old Street, London EC1V 9BP. (T) 020 7549 3300; (F) 020 7253 0523; (E) ceequal@ciria.org or at Crane Environmental, 12 Cranes Drive, Surbiton, Surrey KT5 8AL, Tel: 020 8399 4389.
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For further press information, contact James Milne at press@ciria.org or, for more details on the purpose and operation of the Scheme, contact CEEQUAL's Chief Executive, Roger Venables, at roger@crane-environmental.co.uk or on 020 8399 4389.
About CEEQUAL
CEEQUAL is an awards scheme assessing the environmental quality of civil engineering projects ¬– originally conceived as a civil engineering equivalent to BREEAM for buildings.
Its development was led by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and project-managed by Crane Environmental Ltd, and is now run through CEEQUAL Ltd, a company set up for the purpose and owned by ICE, BRE, British Waterways, CIRIA, the Civil Engineering Contractors' Association, CIWEM, Costain, Crane Environmental, Hyder Consulting, Responsible Solutions, Temple Environmental and WSP Group.
CEEQUAL Ltd has a Board of non-Executive Directors drawn from shareholders and other interested parties and the Scheme is managed jointly by CIRIA and Crane Environmental, with Crane's Managing Director Roger Venables acting as CEEQUAL Chief Executive on a consultancy basis.
CEEQUAL's vision is to progressively increase the use of the CEEQUAL Scheme and its principles by both clients and their project teams, so that demonstrably high environmental performance becomes an integral part of accepted good practice on civil engineering projects.
CEEQUAL uses a points-scoring-based assessment framework, which is applicable to any civil engineering project and includes environmental aspects such as the use of water, energy and land as well as ecology, landscape, nuisance to neighbours, archaeology, waste minimisation and management, and community amenity.
A CEEQUAL Award publicly recognises the achievement of high environmental
performance. Awards are made to projects in which the clients, designers and
contractors go beyond the legal and environmental minima to achieve distinctive
environmental standards of performance.