Environment
We fully recognise our responsibility to manage the impact of our activities on the environment and are committed to good environmental practice. Our environmental management system is certified to ISO 14001.
Wherever possible we will use our influence with clients and their designers to improve the whole-life environmental performance of construction projects, to establish energy-efficient and sustainable solutions. This includes the specification of certified legal and sustainable timber.
Dean & Dyball Civil Engineering was among the first of the UK’s construction companies to be registered to the FSC, PEFC and Forest Products timber chain of custody schemes, strengthening our already strong commitment to minimise our environmental impact and behave responsibly.
We are signed up to the construction industry's commitment of 'halving waste to landfill by 2012'. To divert waste away from landfill we operate a reduce, reuse, recycle hierarchy, starting with the careful selection, ordering and use of materials. We are committed to the fulfilment of our waste minimisation strategy, which has been developed to guide our activities. Our commitments have been identified as:
- Working with our industry partners and sharing best practise.
- Raising awareness of waste minimisation and resource efficiency.
- Being economical in the use of materials and the selection of products.
- Buying more recycled materials and materials that can be recycled after use.
- Favouring suppliers and subcontractors who remove waste as part of their contract and who work to sound environmental principles.
- Diverting waste away from landfill under the principle eliminate, reduce, re-use, recycle.
- Establishing solutions relevant to particular regional or divisional activities.
In implementing our environmental management system at project level we will develop a project-specific environmental management plan (EMP) that will incorporate issues such as traffic management, water quality monitoring, noise and vibration monitoring, community consultation and the development of the site waste management plan (SWMP).