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DECEMBER - JANUARYCONSTRUCTIONBUSINESSREVIEW.COM8IN MYOPINIONCREATING SUSTAINABLE DESIGNSBy Hannah Leggatt, Head of Environment ­ Delivery, ClancyI was recently asked to speak at the UK's leading construction and design show, London Build Expo. While planning what I'd like to ensure was included in the panel discussion titled `Learn from the Past for a Greener Tomorrow', I found myself thinking about what I'd learnt throughout my career. Having spent, let's call it, many years in the construction industry, I know that it's often been a challenge to keep environmental impact at the forefront of the decisions we need to make in the industry. Firstly, it is about ensuring environment and sustainability (E&S) is included at the concept and/or design stage of any project, and importantly, that it doesn't just have a place at the table, but it has a voice when decisions are being made and ensuring that the right people are invited and included in those decisions. It is critical to embed and consider E&S options at the outset, and it is only by doing this that the full value and benefits can be recognised and realised. Trying to retrofit it later drives up costs, increases risk and adds complications that could so easily be avoided. We can see incredible examples of this ideology being applied successfully in the UK on high-profile projects, including Crossrail and High-Speed Two. These programmes are celebrated for their successful delivery of the highest standards of environmental and sustainability excellence and for setting a new bar that other projects in the future will have to either meet or exceed. This is positive news for E&S professionals as we approach a new era in the industry. Secondly, we need to ensure we learn from the past in how we approach and deal with climate change, sustainability and managing environmental impacts. It is about making sure things are done better going forward, which means moving away from saying, thinking and doing things the same as we have always done. We need to challenge that thinking and drive forward a fundamental shift in our mindset to how we approach dealing with and considering the environment. It is only through doing this that we can ensure we won't repeat the same choices and mistakes in the future, but also ensure we can develop robust mitigations that are both sustainable and adaptable and are
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