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What
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CEEQUAL Annual
Seminar at the ICE 24th July 2009
Bookings are now being taken for this year's
free CEEQUAL Seminar at the Institution of Civil
Engineers. Registration starts at 9.45am and the
seminar itself will commence at 10.30am, followed
by a light lunch at 1pm.
This year's seminar will be run under the heading
"Improving sustainability in civil engineering"
and will include presentations by Costain and
the ODA on the use of CEEQUAL on their projects.
For those who cannot attend in person, the event
will be broadcast live via the ICE's online conferencing
software.
The seminar is sponsored by the ICE Environment
& Sustainability Panel and is free to attend
however, advance booking is essential. To download
a programme and booking form, or to register for
the online broadcast, please go to http://events.ice.org.uk/CEEQUAL
Download the CEEQUAL Manual
for free
The CEEQUAL Manual for Projects Version 4 can
be downloaded free of charge from this website.
Just follow this link to download
the CEEQUAL Manual. You will be asked
to register your details in an online form. Once
you've done this you will be able to access the
free download.
Printed and bound copies of the new Manual can
still be ordered for £100 (plus p&p),
from CIRIA's online
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What is CEEQUAL?
CEEQUAL is the assessment and awards scheme for improving
sustainability in civil engineering and public realm
projects. It is being promoted by the ICE and a group
of committed industry organisations such as CIRIA, CECA
and ACE. Its objective is to encourage the attainment
of environmental excellence in civil engineering, and
thus to deliver improved environmental and social performance
in project specification, design and construction.
CEEQUAL celebrates the achievement of high environmental
and social performance in civil engineering and public
realm projects. Awards are made to projects in which
the clients, designers and contractors go beyond the
legal and environmental minima to achieve distinctive
standards of performance.
CEEQUAL:
- promotes improved sustainability in project specification,
design and construction
- demonstrates the commitment of the civil engineering
industry to environmental quality
- assesses performance across 12 areas of environmental
and social concern
- provides a checklist of appropriate action for project
teams.
CEEQUAL uses a rigorous points-scoring-based assessment,
which is applicable to any civil engineering or public
realm project and includes environmental and social
aspects such as the use of water, energy and land, impacts
on ecology, landscape, neighbours, archaeology, as well
as waste minimisation and management, and community
relations and amenity.
Benefits of CEEQUAL
Applicants for Awards report a range of benefits from
having their project assessed under CEEQUAL.
- Reputation-building and good PR
- including delivery of the applicant's environmental,
sustainability and/or corporate social responsibility
policies.
- Enhanced team spirit - developing
a positive "we must score well here" attitude
and rewarding teams that have gone the extra mile.
- Demonstrating commitment to the environmental
agenda - to clients, within the team and
the organisations involved, and to the industry as
a whole.
- Improvements to projects and best practice
- including whole-life costing, waste minimisation,
resource efficiency (materials, water, energy), and
reducing complaints and environmental incidents.
CEEQUAL Awards
A CEEQUAL Award provides:
- public recognition
- an independent measure of project performance on
a wide range of environmental and social issues
- encouragement and a target for project teams to
deliver high performance.
Awards are presented to all project partners at suitable
industry events. Projects that have successfully completed
their CEEQUAL assessment and have received an Award
are listed on the 'Recent
Awards' page.
A CEEQUAL Award for your civil engineering project
will identify you as an organisation that:
- measures and compares standards of performance
- respects people and the society in which it operates
- seeks to undertake its work in an ethical and sustainable
manner
- acts in a socially and environmentally responsible
way
- protects and enhances the environment
- is concerned about the major impacts of construction
on the environment and the earth's resources.
If you would like to register a project for
a CEEQUAL award, please read the 'How
CEEQUAL works' page, and then use the link on that
page to register your interest.
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