ABSTRACT
Managing sustainability is something that all of us, whether we are construction managers, designers, QSs, or sustainability specialists, will be doing as part of our professional career. Sustainability is part of everyday management, or will be sooner than you think. Currently we are mostly relying on sustainability specialists and environmental managers to do sustainability for us, but even now, the thinking is shifting. The responsibility for doing sustainability: coming up with ideas on what to do and then implementing, is spreading across the organisation. The CoRE1 programme in 2008 engaged the construction unions UCATT and Unite and ran workshops in the eastern region where construction operatives discussed the construction waste issues at their workplaces and developed solutions which they then implemented. Similarly, my 2010-11 implementation of the NoWaste programme at the two big Stratford project are about pushing forward with the same agenda (see Figure 12.1). To me, this is the way forward where sustainability is everyone’s business and the specialists act as coaches and facilitators.
