Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd

Caring for the Environment...

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited (BBCEL) respects the natural, built, social and economic environments on all projects in which it operates. When designing, planning, constructing or maintaining built infrastructure, our aim is to promote and contribute positively to sustainable development through maximizing, insofar as our involvement allows, the benefits that the built infrastructure brings to society.

Our Environmental Policy, which provides the framework and principles to which we work is distributed to all employees.

Our approach to achieving this aim is delivered through implementing a certified environmental management system, establishing standards, addressing challenges and reporting performance.

Environmental Management System

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering was one of the first construction companies in the UK to be awarded ISO 14001:1996 for its environmental management system and for the last seven years it has been successfully implemented on our UK and overseas projects.

Our environmental management system encompasses, activities carried out by the entire business - from pre-qualification to contract completion and is integrated where applicable to quality or safety processes. Access to this system is made available through our unique process based management system called ProCEL and is based around a simple - plan do check act philosophy.

Co-ordination within the company is achieved through an Environmental Steering Group, chaired by the Managing Director and attended by senior managers from functional and operational disciplines. The Environmental Steering Group reviews overall environmental performance against our annual targets, plans actions to achieve desired improvements, and disseminates best practice.

Site Environmental Standards

Environmental management is implemented at a project level through the development of a project specific Environmental Management Plan (EMP). Typical controls implemented on projects include:

• Programming of works to avoid sensitive breeding or nesting periods
• Installation of protective fencing
• Applications for licences, consents and permissions
• Consultations with statutory and local organisations

Challenges and Achievements

Civil engineering projects can have a profound impact on the natural and environment. We are playing an increasingly influential role in helping to both minimise environmental damage and improve the environmental quality of projects through extending performance boundaries and using innovative techniques to effect more sustainable solutions.

Performance Reporting

Environmental performance from all projects is reported monthly and the results are collated and reported to the BBCEL management board.

BBCEL produce an annual report, Safety Environment and Social Report, as well as contributing data and case studies to Balfour Beatty Safety Environment and Social Report.

We also have numerous examples where the industry, our Clients, the Environment Agency and local authorities have cited our projects and practices as leading edge.