Bane NOR mandates environmental certification of all upcoming projects

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Bane NOR wants to further reduce the environmental impact of its railway infrastructure projects by mandating an environmental assessment and certification for all upcoming works, the company said on Wednesday.

To that end, Bane NOR will be adopting the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment & Award Scheme (CEEQUAL) developed by the UK’s Building Research Establishment (BRE).

This should help during planning and construction, facilitate stakeholder involvement and reduce waste. The assessment also results in a verified sustainability performance figure for each project.

“With CEEQUAL, we get a system that gives us solid documentation of how good we are at setting environmental requirements in the contracts with our contractors, and how good our suppliers are at following them in practice” said Stine Undrum, executive vice-president of Bane NOR’s development division.

CEEQUAL was first adopted in 2020 by a Bane NOR subcontractor at construction sites in Drammen. There, the Veidekke firm is working on installing double tracks, and adopting the assessment tool has led to numerous insights on achieving additional environmental gains.

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Author: Nick Augusteijn

Former Chief Editor of RailTech.com

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bönström bönström|27.05.22|03:03

But of course, one of the two, by far most safe and energy effective, modes now offensively – in all respects – shall prove the environmentally friendly device!
Primarily by being high quality, punctional, providing for safe eta, thus a timely device, ware owners will prefer railways, as ensuring low logistic costs. (Regrettably, currently, for majority, the on road trucks is the single, high quality available device – up to 1000 km from Port.).

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Bane NOR mandates environmental certification of all upcoming projects

Image: Bane NOR

Bane NOR wants to further reduce the environmental impact of its railway infrastructure projects by mandating an environmental assessment and certification for all upcoming works, the company said on Wednesday.

To that end, Bane NOR will be adopting the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment & Award Scheme (CEEQUAL) developed by the UK’s Building Research Establishment (BRE).

This should help during planning and construction, facilitate stakeholder involvement and reduce waste. The assessment also results in a verified sustainability performance figure for each project.

“With CEEQUAL, we get a system that gives us solid documentation of how good we are at setting environmental requirements in the contracts with our contractors, and how good our suppliers are at following them in practice” said Stine Undrum, executive vice-president of Bane NOR’s development division.

CEEQUAL was first adopted in 2020 by a Bane NOR subcontractor at construction sites in Drammen. There, the Veidekke firm is working on installing double tracks, and adopting the assessment tool has led to numerous insights on achieving additional environmental gains.

Want to know more about that the railway industry is doing in combatting climate change and increasing its climate own climate resilience? Join us at RailTech Europe 2022. Click here for more information and (free) registration. 

Further reading:

Author: Nick Augusteijn

Former Chief Editor of RailTech.com

1 comment op “Bane NOR mandates environmental certification of all upcoming projects”

bönström bönström|27.05.22|03:03

But of course, one of the two, by far most safe and energy effective, modes now offensively – in all respects – shall prove the environmentally friendly device!
Primarily by being high quality, punctional, providing for safe eta, thus a timely device, ware owners will prefer railways, as ensuring low logistic costs. (Regrettably, currently, for majority, the on road trucks is the single, high quality available device – up to 1000 km from Port.).

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