Environment

This page provides details of CECA’s activities in relation to environmental issues in the civil engineering sector. CECA works hard to bring key environmental information to its members and encourages them to develop environmental policies that are realistic, deliverable, and in harmony with the UK’s climate change commitments to reduce up to 24 million tonnes of carbon and thus save the UK £1.46 billion a year by 2050.
CECA works closely with a range of industry stakeholders including:

  • Build UK
  • CIRIA
  • Environment Agency
  • Defra
  • Construction Products Association
  • Construction Plant-hire Association

CECA members are provided with CECA’s Corporate Responsibility Toolkit free of charge on request, to help firms meet demand from clients that they address the CR agenda.

CECA actively contributed to the development of the Government’s Sustainable Construction Strategy, ensuring that it reflected the needs of the industry. CECA has also responded to industry requirements for construction-related guidance on waste management, specifically the Waste Classification and Permitting in Construction guide. CECA have also been involved in the production of the CIRIA Asbestos in Soils Handbook.

Further publications are available to CECA members via the members’ area.

For more information, e-mail CECA’s Civil Engineering Director Peter Crosland at petercrosland@ceca.co.uk

Supporting Members through a Changing Industry

The past few months have been a busy time for CECA North East, with our programme reflecting many of the issues that matter to our members – from health, safety & wellbeing, policy & workload to skills and the future workforce. Our Safe Digging event brought contractors, clients, equipment suppliers and training providers together to

CECA Member Roundtable – CMA Civil Engineering Market Study

Following the publication of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) final civil engineering market study report, CECA members were recently joined at a webinar with representatives from the CMA to hear about its key findings and the next steps. Ben Goodwin, CECA’s Director of Policy and Public Affairs, looks at the key takeaways from the

New NPPF: How Far Has Government Gone to Meet CECA’s Calls for a Clearer Planning System?

This week the UK Government has published its new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), setting out the next stage of its efforts to create what Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook describes as a “clear, rules-based planning system.” For CECA members, the key question is whether the reforms address the practical barriers that continue to