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PRESS RELEASE
12 November 2009
Crossrail to be assessed under CEEQUAL
The UK’s largest and most prominent civil engineering
project has signed up to carry out a series of assessments
under the CEEQUAL environmental assessment and awards scheme.
The £15.9 billion Crossrail project is scheduled to
take eight years to complete and required its own Act of Parliament,
passed in July 2008, to go ahead. Full construction will start
in 2010 and a team of CEEQUAL Verifiers is being appointed
to work with the Assessors from Crossrail.
CEEQUAL’s Chief Executive Roger Venables says: “It
is extremely satisfying for us when a project team as distinguished
as that running Crossrail decides that CEEQUAL provides them
with the right tool to influence and assess their environmental
and social performance. We look forward very much to working
with Rob Paris and his colleagues.”
To find out more about Crossrail, see http://www.crossrail.co.uk
CEEQUAL is the assessment and awards scheme for improving
sustainability in civil engineering and public realm projects.
It celebrates the achievement of high environmental and social
performance and demonstrates the commitment of the civil engineering
industry to environmental quality.
CEEQUAL is being promoted by the ICE, CIRIA and other industry
organisations, including CECA and ACE.
To find out more about CEEQUAL, see http://www.ceequal.com
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Note to Editors
For press enquiries, contact:
Betti Moser
Marketing & PR Team Coordinator
betti.moser@ceequal.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 8687 0718 About CEEQUAL
CEEQUAL is a scheme operated by and for the UK construction industry to promote
improved sustainability in project specification, design and construction and
to demonstrate the commitment of the civil engineering industry to environmental
quality and social performance.
The scheme rigorously assesses performance across 12 areas of environmental
and social concern, rewarding projects on which clients, designers and constructors
go beyond the legal and environmental minima to achieve distinctive environmental
standards in their work.
Applicants for a CEEQUAL Award report a range of benefits from using CEEQUAL
as a driver for improvement and having their project assessed. These include:
- Reputation-building and good PR – including delivery of the applicant’s
environmental, sustainability and/or corporate social responsibility policies.
- Improvements to projects and best practice – ranging from whole-life
costing, waste minimisation, resource efficiency (materials, water, energy),
to reducing complaints and environmental incidents.
- Demonstrating commitment to the environmental agenda – to clients,
within the team and the organisations involved, and to the industry as a whole.
- Enhanced team spirit – developing a positive “we must score
well here” attitude and rewarding teams that have gone the extra mile.
Since the Scheme’s launch in 2003, more than sixty CEEQUAL Awards have
been made. Projects that have achieved an Award are listed on the CEEQUAL website.
Currently about 150 further projects are being assessed and the total value
of projects that have been or are being assessed now exceeds £13 billion.
For more information about CEEQUAL please visit www.ceequal.com.
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