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Engagement from the community in delivery of the plan

Environmental and Sustainability Champion

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…

Planting Trees at a Primary School

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…

Citizen Science – Thames Waterblitz

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…

Leaving a Legacy Through Constructing Bird and Seal Hides

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…

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