Special Hazardous Waste Identification

Client:	Balfour Beatty Major Projects (BBMP) / Rail Link Engineering		Project period:	1995–2004
Project:	Channel Tunnel Rail Link CTRL Contract 440 - Health and Safety/COSHH Requirements		Contract value:	£250,000 - Environment management and contaminated land fees

Services provided Temple provided the Site Environment Manager and Contaminated Land Specialist. Our duties included: Special and hazardous waste identification and disposal (including overseeing transport/haulage arrangements); Sampling and analysis; Trial pits and geological validation work; Control of works (Health and Safety and COSHH requirements); Asbestos identification and removal/disposal; Liaison with statutory bodies; and Environmental monitoring / compliance checks

Benefits

As part of the BBMP team we were able to bring technical and site management expertise. This resulted in:

• significant cost savings (which more than paid for our fees!). Considerable time and effort was put to de-lineating between special and non-hazardous waste which realised large cost savings. The methods we employed re. sampling, analysis and on-site validation were critical to the success of this strategy.
• mentoring of BBMP and site personnel on technical and safety matters (we facilitated regular briefings and “tool box talks”).
• more effective communications between the Environment Agency, Local Authority and Contracts. We provided a central role in these communications and found we were better able to articulate EA and LA requirements to site personnel whilst ensuring the EA and LA demands were not excessively onerous or unreasonable (this required considerable skill re. negotiations).
• some innovative and cost effective environmental monitoring. We introduced new methods and monitoring techniques as well as equipment (the latter facilitated remote access) which led to a more coherent and robust approach to monitoring and more timely intervention to operations as necessary.
• an “Environmental Award” (2001/2) was presented to BBMP– Quality Management Awards (in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the environment).
  

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