Posted By Bob Youel

construction projects costing >£250K & >£500K respectively require specific environmental management plans via environmental law not CDM law & a good place to put them is in the overall project plan. However a completely different set of parameters & competences are required & in all cases its the client who is responsible irespective of any T&C's present

Note the CDMC does not exist re environmental law & in my >30 years of experience I have come across incredibly few designers, PS's, CDMC's that have any real competence re env law so you need the right persons etc in place

Take head: Environmental law is different to other law in so far as its more far reaching, tighter with less protection for an individual so you need to know the parameters

Additionally for projects with a value of £250k you must still have a management system in place although its type is not described

Env areas are not something that you pick up

Posted By Peter MacDonald
Martin

Our post tender award Health and Safety plan has a statement on the disposal of waste. It alludes to our environmental systems and states that the removal of waste and it's disposal will be carried out under the relevant regulations. It also states that all licences as required will be displayed on the site premises. In our case our waste management license, Transfer station license, Asbestos removal license and we have the licenses of our bought in waste management company and the licenses of all tips, transfer station and other disposal points. The copies are not kept in the Health and safety plan document but they are kept in the Health and Safety File or environmental file if the size of project requires it. All waste transfer notes and disposal paperwork are kept in the file too.
You must display all relevant licenses on site.

Hope that helps

Posted By Robert K Lewis
AHS

The following link provides a slide show concerning the voluntary code that currently operates. Next April powers under the Clean Neighbourhoods etc Act will make these mandatory for all construction projects over £250k. Above £500k the duty will extend to formal review reports on the success and failures of the plan, to be completed within X weeks of completion.

http://www.constructinge...untarycodeofpractice.pdf

IT is intended that breaches will be dealt by fixed penalty tickets and/or unlimited fines dependent on nature of offence.

You may pick up the consultation documents on google or through Defra or envirowise websites. I am currently awaiting the conclusions before providing detailed awareness training.

Bob

Posted By Robert K Lewis
Gwizz

A good point because the drafts were not clear between the two. My reading is that the client will be responsible in the design phases to ensure that design is undertaken with an understanding of the need to reduce, minimise, recycle or otherwise reduce landfill during construction. I suspect that the design for use environmental aspect will already be present in the part L of the building regs considerations.

From construction onwards the PC looks a certainty as holder and this is going to throw a spanner into the works of those PCs who pass it all on to their subbies. I cannot see the EA allowing arguments that the work package was less than £250k and thus no plan was required, or for that matter there being 8,10,12 or more plans for one project.

Bob

Posted By Robert K Lewis
Bob

Totally agree with you. The real value of the regulations will be to push some responsibility onto the client and designers to make waste management feasible on the project. I just wonder what will happen though when LAs require the SWM plans for planning to be discharged but the Highways refuse the road closures needed to give space for the waste management area on a city centre job?

The SWMPs were mentioned in the CDM draft, my acop is in the car so I cannot check the final document, and this is one reason why the CP Plan contents listed in the acop cannot fully cover the needs of the complete CP Plan.

Bob