ABSTRACT
There can be little doubt that almost all organisations in the construction industry, like virtually all businesses in the industrial, manufacturing and commercial sectors, face increasing pressures to expand their environmental awareness, improve their environmental performance and provide tangible measures of environmental safeguarding. Such pressures come from clients, investors, consumers, regulatory bodies and, more generally, the public. The construction industry has an unequivocal and predominant effect upon the environment whenever and wherever construction works are carried out. Spiralling demands for more environmentally empathetic and sustainable construction and, in particular, more stringent regulation mean that environmental management will become a prominent consideration in the management of construction processes in the future. This interest may follow in much the same way that the management of quality has become an established aspect of construction management over the last 20 years.
