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development is to enable
all people throughout the
world to satisfy their basic
needs and enjoy a better
quality of life, without
compromising the quality
of life of future generations
(Defra, 2005)
Quentin Leiper,
President ICE
Nelson Ogunshakin,
Chief Executive ACE
Bill Healy,
Chief Executive CIRIA
Peter Andrews,
Chairman CECA
John Colley,
President, Construction
Products Association
Steering group
Ashley Bateson
Ian Nicholson
Dr Tony Parry
Owen Jenkins
Director, CIRIA
Rita Singh
John Wilson
Technical and Environmental Officer,
Civil Engineering Contractors Association
Coordinating author:
Dr Chrissie Pepper
Senior Policy Executive, Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Tel +44 (0)20 7665 2221; Email chrissie.pepper@ice.org.uk
Thanks also to:
Andrew Crudgington, Senior Policy Manager, Institution of Civil Engineers
Ruth Dennett, International Development Manager, Institution of Civil Engineers
Annie Hall, Member of Institution of Civil Engineers Environment and Sustainability Board and Director, GainPerspective
Ed Horton, Senior Marketing Communications Executive, Institution of Civil Engineers
Professor Paul Jowitt, Vice President, Institution of Civil Engineers and Professor of Civil Engineering Systems, Heriot-Watt University
Professor Roger Venables, Chief Executive, CEEQUAL Ltd
Quentin Leiper,
President ICE
Executive summary
This document contains our strategy and plans to build
on past achievements in supporting civil engineerings
contribution to sustainable development.
It has been prepared by a steering group comprising the
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Association for
Consulting and Engineering (ACE), the Civil Engineering
Contractors Association (CECA), CIRIA and the Construction
Products Association. It brings up to date the first strategy
and action plan Society, Sustainability and Civil Engineering,
produced in 2002. Acting in a coordinated way, we will
help to lead the civil engineering sector towards a more
sustainable future and to enhance still further its
contribution to a more sustainable built environment.
Our vision is for the civil engineering industry and
profession to play its full role in the creation and
maintenance of sustainable communities in harmony
with their natural environment.
Underpinning this vision are four strategic
aims which will guide our approach to pursuing
sustainable development in civil engineering:
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Introduction
Despite some excellent improvements in the environmental
performance of civil engineering in recent years, and
progress towards improving the quality of many peoples
lives, the current approach to development adopted by most
organisations remains essentially unsustainable. Collectively,
we are consuming the earths natural resources beyond its
ability to regenerate them and creating waste at a rate that
cannot be sustained. In addition to the environmental impact
of our actions, the needs of societies around the world are
not being met.
Civil engineering delivers the infrastructure on which modern
life depends clean water, wastewater treatment, transport
systems etc. However, there is a strong sense of imbalance
in the delivery of civil engineering, the positive and adverse
impacts of what we do, and the social benefits that accrue
from our work.
As members of the built environment community, our goal
is to rectify this imbalance by the creation of sustainable
communities in harmony with their natural environment.
Quality of Life
To achieve this, we need to strengthen markedly how
we already in part address some of the most profound
problems facing humanity, for example climate change
and poverty, to name only two.
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the
Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE),
the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA),
CIRIA and the Construction Products Association
have prepared this sustainable development strategy
and action plan to continue their drive for real and
continuous improvement in the performance of the
civil engineering sector with respect to sustainability.
It defines our commitment to help industry deliver
more sustainable civil engineering and the actions
that we will undertake in pursuing this goal.
Background: building
on past achievements
This sustainable development strategy and action plan
is the second such coordinated plan. In 2002, ICE, ACE,
CECA, CIRIA and the Construction Products Association
published Society, Sustainability and Civil Engineering
a sustainability strategy for the civil engineering sector.
This cooperation between civil engineering professional,
trade and research bodies was a pioneering first for the
partners, and was successful in delivering a joined-up
approach to sustainable development.
Examples of its successes include:
Best
Practice
Actions for all organisations in
the civil engineering supply chain:
improve management of impacts and resource
productivity, including whole life-cycle assessments
engage the supply chain at the earliest possible stages
of a project to ensure sustainable development principles
are embedded
promote the business case for sustainable
development to clients and financial institutions
be accountable for performance with respect
to sustainability
CEEQUAL The Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment and Award Scheme see www.ceequal.com for further details
n ICE International Development Policy Group has been established to help facilitate the civil engineers role
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in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals
International action
This strategy and action plan recognises the importance of
common efforts, global action and collective responsibility
for sustainable development, and for fulfilling the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In July 2006, ICE signed a Protocol for Engineering a
Sustainable Future for the Planet along with the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Canadian Society
for Civil Engineering (CSCE). This articulated the organisations
continuing commitment to sustainable development and
recognised that civil engineers have the knowledge and
skills to play a major role in helping to meet the MDGs. The
Protocol also committed each of the signatories to produce
a sustainability action plan to help articulate and deliver
more sustainable development. This document contains ICEs
UK action plan for sustainable development. An International
Development Policy Group (IDPG) has been established to lead
ICEs international development work and take responsibility
for coordinating the international element of ICEs sustainable
development strategy. ICE is also working to encourage
other engineering institutions worldwide to sign up to the
Protocol and produce their own sustainability action plans.
The IDPG will build on the work of the ICE Presidential
Commission Engineers without Frontiers (EwF). The EwF
Commission, which ran from 2003 to 2006, focused
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nhanced reputation with clients, stakeholders and the wider
community as socially and environmentally responsible organisations
enhanced team working, bringing project teams together to pursue
a positive and shared environmental agenda and motivating them
to perform well
c osts saving money as well as delivering improved environmental
performance through a wide range of actions such as whole-life
costing, reduced energy and water consumption, waste minimisation
as well as minimising the costs of environmental incidents and the
costs of dealing with protesters
One user has reported that actions prompted by the CEEQUAL scheme
resulted in savings of over three times the CEEQUAL fee just part-way
through the project.
Metronets Snaresbrook embankment stabilisation project was honoured by a CEEQUAL award for going the extra mile beyond the standard legal
and regulatory requirements to achieve distinctive environmental levels of performance a practice now adopted across their Civils programme
(Defra, 2005)
Figure 1
Equitable
Bearable
T he goal of sustainable
Social
Economy
Sustainable
Environment
Viable
Economic
Society
Environment
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leadership
education and training
knowledge transfer
a voice of the industry and profession
to Government and the public
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Leadership
Accordingly, ICE will circulate the document to its Country
Representatives worldwide so that they may consider its
relevance for promoting more sustainable development
where they live and work. Similarly, the document will
also be circulated by the other partners in this project
to their international counterparts.
This plan is organised around the four sustainable
development aims identified in the strategy.
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2. To encourage
civil engineering
organisations to
take ownership
of sustainable
development
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Champion
Timescale
ICE
December 2007
ICE
2008
ICE
Ongoing
All partners
Ongoing
CIRIA
October 2007
All partners
December 2008
ICE
Report delivered
by December
2007
T he ENGAGE-CONSTRUCT website contains practical guidance on how to be a socially responsible construction client,
for more information go to www.engageweb.org
Champion
Timescale
All partners
Ongoing
ICE
October 2007
ICE
Ongoing
ACE
January 2008
CIRIA
April 2008
CIRIA
June 2008
Construction
Products
Association
Ongoing
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Champion
Timescale
Ongoing
CECA
December 2007
All partners
Annual
ICE
December 2007
All partners
Annual
Construction
Products
Association
Ongoing
ICE
Ongoing
ICE
Annual
Champion
Timescale
ICE
Ongoing
ICE
June 2008
ICE
June 2008
ICE
September 2008
ICE
Late 2008
onwards
ICE
September/
October 2007
ICE
September 2007
ICE
Ongoing
All partners
Ongoing
eveloped by the Skills Working Group of the Sustainability Forum for Construction now owned
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and promoted by ConstructionSkills, SummitSkills and AssetSkills for wider dissemination and use
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Champion
Timescale
ICE
2008/09
All partners
Ongoing
ICE, CIRIA,
Construction
Products
Association
2008
ICE
December 2007
ICE, CIRIA
2008
Construction
Products
Association
2008/09
All partners
Ongoing
All partners
Ongoing
CIRIA
Annual
CIRIA
Ongoing
Aim 4 Create and influence a policy framework that demands more socially and
environmentally responsible behaviour
Creating the right policy and regulatory framework to support and reward sustainable development will be
challenging and will require a variety of actions at all levels. The strategy partners will work collaboratively
to identify these and promote consistency in policy making.
Objective
Champion
Timescale
All partners
December 2007
All partners
Ongoing
All partners
Ongoing
All partners
December 2008
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