Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
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
- Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
- Nature conservation
- Archaeology on site
- Dealing with contaminated land on construction sites
- Excavating, installing pipework and other construction activities
- Impact of land contamination on construction work
- Nature conservation and affecting public rights of way in construction
- Site investigation and sampling to assess contamination
- Soils and soil stripping
- Contaminated land
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Asphalt used in construction
- Bentonite used in construction
- Concrete & grout used in construction
- Explosives used in construction
- Generators at construction sites
- Paint used in construction
- Plant maintenance at construction sites
- Plaster & plasterboard used in construction
- Plumbing
- Refuelling at construction sites
- Reinforcement fixing at construction sites
- Road sweepers at construction sites
- Scaffolding used in construction
- Considerate Constructors Scheme
- Types of environmental licences and permits
- Pollution prevention and control permits and waste management licences
- Authorisations and consents for discharges
- Water abstraction and impoundment authorisations
- Trade effluent consents and agreements
- Waste carrier, broker and dealer registration
- Hazardous/special waste notification
- Radioactive substances certificates
- Waste Transfer Notes and how to complete them
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Storage & transport of waste
- Asbestos
- Site waste management plans
- Demolition waste
- Construction and demolition wastes - burning
- Chipping wood & other plant material
- Composting
- Crushing bricks, tiles, concrete & other materials
- Excavated materials from construction sites
- 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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