Temple Group help CEEQUAL pass the £2bn milestone - January 2007
 CEEQUAL, the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment & Awards scheme has announced that the construction value of projects that have been or are being assessed under CEEQUAL passed £2bn at the end of October, and now stands at £2.07bn. Its ‘second billion’ took just four months, after passing the £1bn mark in June this year.
Since CEEQUAL’s launch in 2003, almost 70 project teams have now signed up for their projects to be assessed under CEEQUAL. Fourteen projects have so far completed the scheme and received Awards.
CEEQUAL assesses how well a project team has dealt with the environmental issues they faced. Minimum regulatory compliance equates roughly to a zero score; to receive an award, projects must score at least 25% and an 'excellent' rating is achieved by exceeding 75%. Temple Group's involvement
Temple Group have been involved in the development of the CEEQUAL scheme from its very early stages and were responsible for assessing a Pilot Scheme at the Magilligan Ferry, NI. Since that time a number of our employees have become registered Verifiers and Assessors for the scheme awards and the CEEQUAL team is lead by Edd Bergin.
By adopting the principles of CEEQUAL at the earliest stages of the development or construction of a scheme will ensure that wherever possible the project takes appropriate account of the environment and should ensure that there are no legal challenges or impediments to the project programme.
Edd Bergin said ' We are proud of our involvement in the original development of the CEEQUAL scheme and firmly believe that it can and will deliver environmental quality for both small and large scale construction projects ensuring that environmental concerns are addressed at the very earliest stages'.
Please click here to view our CEEQUAL service sheet. About CEEQUAL
CEEQUAL is an awards scheme assessing the environmental quality of civil engineering projects – originally conceived as a civil engineering equivalent to BREEAM for buildings.
Its development was led by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and project-managed by Crane Environmental Ltd, and is now run through CEEQUAL Ltd, a company set up for the purpose and owned by ICE, BRE, British Waterways, CIRIA, the Civil Engineering Contractors' Association, CIWEM, Costain, Crane Environmental, Hyder Consulting, Responsible Solutions, Temple Group and WSP Group.
CEEQUAL Ltd has a Board of non-Executive Directors drawn from shareholders and other interested parties and the Scheme is managed jointly by CIRIA and Crane Environmental, with Crane's Managing Director Roger Venables acting as CEEQUAL Chief Executive on a consultancy basis.
CEEQUAL's vision is to progressively increase the use of the CEEQUAL Scheme and its principles by both clients and their project teams, so that demonstrably high environmental performance becomes an integral part of accepted good practice on civil engineering projects.
CEEQUAL uses a points-scoring-based assessment framework, which is applicable to any civil engineering project and includes environmental aspects such as the use of water, energy and land as well as ecology, landscape, nuisance to neighbours, archaeology, waste minimisation and management, and community amenity.
A CEEQUAL Award publicly recognises the achievement of high environmental performance. Awards are made to projects in which the clients, designers and contractors go beyond the legal and environmental minima to achieve distinctive environmental standards of performance.
For further information on Temple Group's CEEQUAL services please contact Edd Bergin on 020 7394 3700 or edd.bergin@templegroup.co.uk
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