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On November 7th 2006 CIRIA staged a conference on Resource efficiency and waste management - achieving sustainable waste practices at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel in London. The conference was chaired by Professor David Balmforth, CIRIA Non-Executive Director and Senior Principal Engineer, MWH.
The day bought together a range of delegates from regulators, clients, contractors, waste management and recycling companies and consultants to inform and discuss the challenges and opportunities for the construction industry to achieve sustainable waste practices.
The keynote address was delivered by Simon Mills, Head of Sustainable Development for the City of London Corporation. Simon outlined that London alone consumes more energy than the whole of Portugal and that action needs to be taken by business to make cities sustainable.
Steve Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) informed delegates of impending legislation which includes a review of the Waste Framework Directive; the move to combine Pollution Prevention Control Permits with the Waste Management Licence system into a common permitting and compliance scheme – Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP), and the provision to make Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP) mandatory under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005.
David Gibson from Alfred McAlpine Project Services outlined how they address resource efficiency and waste management during the design and construction stages, and that it is at the design stage where the biggest wins can be achieved.
In the afternoon Fiona Geddes, Project Manager, Environment Agency and David Mason, Environment Manager, Carillion Regional Civil Engineering, gave an overview of managing waste during the construction of a flood defence scheme. Fiona and David illustrated how the Environment Agency strives to achieve environmental best practice through Framework Agreements with its suppliers. 
Workshops ran throughout the day and covered subjects on partnering with your supply chain to improve resource efficiency; how Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering used innovation and value engineering on the M25 widening programme to minimise waste. Action Sustainability outlined the actions necessary to deliver more resource efficient consumption and Burges Salmon held an interactive workshop on implementing legislation. Golder Associates used their workshop to outline the advances in demolition practices while the BRE and WRAP workshop guided delegates through the nine stages of writing a SWMP.
Delegate feedback on the conference was very positive: “Excellent conference, very informative”; “One of the better waste conferences in recent years with a good mix and not repetitive as most!”; “Well done!”
Copies of both the plenary and workshop presentations can be downloaded below.
Plenary sessions |
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Speaker(s) |
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Simon Mills |
City of London Corporation |
Keynote address: Sustainable cities - challenges and opportunities |
Steve Lee |
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management |
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Dave Gibson |
Alfred McAlpine Project Services |
Resource efficiency & managing waste in practice - The contractors' perspective |
Fiona Geddes |
Environment Agency |
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Workshop sessions |
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Bruce Goldring |
AMEC Building and Facilities Services |
Partnering with your supply chain to improve resource efficiency |
Martin Brock |
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited |
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Shaun McCarthy |
Action Sustainability |
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Ian Salter |
Burges Salmon |
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Katherine Adams |
BRE |
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Martin Bjerregaard |
Golder Associates (UK) Ltd |
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