CEEQUAL was first put forward in 1999 at a meeting of the Environment and Sustainability Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The idea was to develop the first assessment methodology and awards scheme for environmental performance of civil engineering projects.
Through a 4-year Development Project led by the ICE, and nine years of operations, refinement and further development from extensive industry expertise, the CEEQUAL scheme is now the world’s leading sustainability rating tool for civil engineering.
The CEEQUAL scheme takes a very broad view of ‘civil engineering’ in that the scheme can be used to assess all mainstream civil engineering, infrastructure for modern life, landscaping and public realm works. It rewards project and contract teams in which clients, designers and contractors go beyond the legal minima to achieve distinctive environmental and social standards in their work. CEEQUAL takes great pride in celebrating the commitment of the civil engineering industry in achieving – and demonstrating through evidence – high environmental quality, and economic and social performance.
Promoters of major civil engineering projects are required to undertake a regulatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and consequently to prepare an Environmental Statement (ES), normally at the preliminary or outline design stage. However, this does not extend to smaller projects or to a post-construction evaluation of the environmental quality and performance of the project as actually implemented. The CEEQUAL scheme complements the statutory requirement, by operating during and after design and construction, assessing what is actually built and how it is built.
For more information about the CEEQUAL scheme, training courses and more, please contact us at:
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