Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Construction
Construction guidance
This guidance is for anyone working in building, demolition, civil engineering and building trades.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Causes and effects of air pollution
- Business benefits of improving air quality
- What you must do to prevent air pollution
- Improve air quality: prevent dark smoke
- Burning waste controls
- Protecting neighbours from air pollution
- Measuring and monitoring to reduce air pollution
- Air pollution environmental legislation
- Air quality
- Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
- Nature conservation
- Contaminated land
- Archaeology on site
- Dealing with contaminated land on construction sites
- Excavating and installing pipework on a construction site
- Impacts of land contamination on construction work
- Nature conservation and affecting public rights of way for construction sites
- Site investigation and sampling to identify contaminated land
- Soils and soil stripping
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Asphalt and road planings used in construction
- Using bentonite on construction sites
- Concrete and grout
- Considerate constructors scheme
- Explosives used in construction
- Generators at construction sites
- Paint used on construction projects
- Plant maintenance on construction sites
- Plaster and plasterboard used in construction
- Plumbing
- Refueling on construction sites
- Reinforcement fixing at construction sites
- Road sweepers at construction sites
- Scaffolding on construction sites
- Types of environmental licence
- Pollution prevention and control permits and waste management licences
- Authorisations and consents for discharges
- Trade effluent consents and agreements
- Water abstraction and impoundment authorisations
- Waste carrier, broker and dealer registration
- Hazardous/special waste notifications
- Radioactive substances authorisations
- Waste Transfer Notes and how to complete them
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Excavated materials from construction sites
- Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP)
- Storage & transport of waste
- Demolition waste
- Extractive waste from mines and quarries
- General waste and waste mobile plant at mines and quarries
- Used tyres, waste tyres
- Waste oil, oil disposal
- Asbestos - What is it?
- Where is asbestos found in buildings?
- How to identify Asbestos
- Working with Asbestos
- Asbestos disposal
- Asbestos environmental legislation
- Chipping wood & other plant material
- Burning construction and demolition waste
- Crushing bricks, tiles, concrete & other materials
- Crushing or grinding waste tiles or other ceramics
- Oil recycling
- Recycling construction materials
- Recycling concrete
- Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- Water use and efficiency
- Septic tanks
- Preventing water pollution
- Bunds for fuel and chemical storage
- Controlling surface water runoff from works near water
- Dealing with silty water
- Dewatering your excavations on a construction site
- Discharges to water and sewer
- Oil separators for use at construction sites
- Groundwater protection during drilling and boring
- Settlement tanks for removing silt from water
- Slurry from construction sites
- Water use and abstraction
- Wheel washing at construction sites
- Working close to water for construction businesses
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