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

CECA: Infrastructure Sector Key To Building Britain’s Next Industrial Success Stories

The UK Government’s search for major investment sites should put the infrastructure needed to make them usable at the centre of its selection process, civil engineering contractors said today. Responding to the launch of the Strategic Sites Accelerator, the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) said the programme offers an opportunity to tackle the practical obstacles

CECA: 2026 Budget Pipeline Commitment Must Deliver Procurement Timetables, Not Totals

Civils contractors today welcomed the Government’s commitment to publish an updated Infrastructure Pipeline and additional capital for the National Wealth Fund in the 2026 Budget, but urged Ministers to turn headline figures into funded, procurable schemes. The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) said the £20.4 billion announced in the Budget, stemming from additional capital for

CECA Member Roundtable: The Benefits of Early Contractor Involvement (ECI)

CECA members were recently joined at an online roundtable by the Centre for Construction Best Practice (CCBP) to discuss their research into the benefits of early contractor involvement (ECI) in project delivery. Ben Goodwin, CECA’s Director of Policy and Public Affairs, looks at the key takeaways in this short blog. CCBP’s Constructing Certainty research examined