Who is CEEQUAL for?
The CEEQUAL scheme is relevant to clients of civil
engineering or public realm projects, civil engineering
design companies and civil engineering construction
companies, including:
- public sector clients
- private sector clients –
for example, developers and end-users of civil engineering
- projects including water and
wastewater treatment plants, energy plants, railways,
ports and roads designers
- design & Build consortia
- contractors
- funders and regulators of
construction schemes – who may want reassurance
that projects are carried out in an environmentally
responsible way.
How does CEEQUAL work?
On registration, the applicant organisation receives
a copy of the latest version of the CEEQUAL Manual and
a Scoring Spreadsheet for the type of Award applied
for.
To have a project assessed and verified under the CEEQUAL
Scheme, the project team first needs to send an assessment
registration form to CEEQUAL Ltd. On registration,
the applicant organisation receives a copy of the latest
version of the CEEQUAL Manual and a Scoring Spreadsheet
for the type of Award applied for.
The Manual and Spreadsheet will be used by the Assessor,
who has to be trained at a CEEQUAL Assessor Training
Course. Check the Training
Courses page for details.
Award types
Five types of award are available:
- Whole Project Award,
which is normally applied for jointly by or on behalf
of the client, designer and principal contractor(s)
- Client & Design
Award (also available as Interim Award)
- Design Award,
applied for by the principal designer(s) only
- Construction Award,
which can be applied for by the principal contractor(s)
- Design & Build
Award for Design & Build and other partnership
contracts.
The latter four awards have been made available for
project team members who have project partners who do
not wish to participate in a Whole Project Award application,
or perhaps wish to have their own contribution assessed
alongside a Whole Project Award.
In addition, as indicated above, the Client & Design
Award is available as an Interim Client & Design
Award on the way to a Whole Project Award - see
the feescale (pdf file) for details.
The assessment process
The first step in the assessment process is for the
questions not relevant to the project to be scoped out
in consultation between the Assessor and the CEEQUAL-appointed
Verifier.
The Assessor then addresses the questions, completes
the Scoring Spreadsheet and gathers all the required
supporting evidence. This may be done as a rolling activity
throughout the life of the project, or near the end
of the project, at the applicant’s choice. However,
it is recommended that a decision on applying for a
CEEQUAL assessment is taken early in the project life
so that a CEEQUAL file of evidence can be compiled without
difficulty as the project progresses. This way, the
Manual can be used as a checklist and prompt for environmental
action by the project team.
When the Assessor has completed the assessment, the
completed Spreadsheet is sent to the Verifier for review
and preparation for the verification meeting, which
normally takes place on site. Once the Assessor and
Verifier have agreed the score, the final score and
Award recommendation is checked and ratified by CEEQUAL
Ltd. The Award certificates are signed by the President
of the ICE and the CEEQUAL Chairman and presented to
all project partners. The Award presentation will usually
be scheduled, in mutual agreement with the Award recipients,
to coincide with a suitable public or professional event.
It is also possible to have a verified Interim Client
& Design Award after some or all of the design has
been completed. This can be particularly useful for
long-term projects as it rewards the client & design
team long before project completion. It also offers
the opportunity to adjust the project's features and
performance and thus aim for a higher score in the final
verification for a Whole Project Award.
To register a project for a CEEQUAL assessment and
Award please download a registration
form.
Please note that an assessment can only be carried
out by a CEEQUAL-trained Assessor. To find out about
forthcoming Assessor training courses, please check
the Training Courses
page.
The CEEQUAL Manual
The CEEQUAL Manual can be used as a checklist to improve
the environmental and sustainability performance of
a project, without applying for a CEEQUAL Award –
or in order to apply for an Award at a later stage.
A hard-copy version of the Manual (without the Scoring
Spreadsheets) can be purchased for £100 (plus
p&p) from CEEQUAL.
To order a Manual please
download an order form.
What level of achievement
merits a CEEQUAL Award?
CEEQUAL assesses the extent to which the project has
exceeded the statutory and regulatory minima (doing
no more than what is legally required would therefore
be roughly equivalent to a zero score). Note that it
is not possible for a 100% score to be achieved because
of conflicting environmental issues in the assessment.
The Award thresholds, based on the maximum possible
score for that project after the scoping-out is agreed
by the Assessor and Verifier, are:
- Exceeded by 25% – Pass
- Exceeded by 40% – Good
- Exceeded by 60% – Very
Good
- Exceeded by 75% – Excellent
For an ‘Excellent’ Award, the actual score
is given on the Award certificate.
How much will a CEEQUAL
assessment cost?
A fee is charged to cover the cost of the Verifier
and the administration and progressive development of
the CEEQUAL Scheme. The fee is based on the civil engineering
value of the project at contract award or, if applying
earlier, on the client's or engineer's estimate.
The minimum fee is £2,995 for projects up to
£2 million, rising non-linearly to £5,950
for projects with a contract value of £8 to £10
million, £10,800 for projects valued between £75
and £100 million, £14,150 for projects valued
between £200 and £250 million, and then
increasing at £2,700 per £100 million increase
in project value.
Additional fees are charged for Interim Awards on
projects up to £450million in value, beyond which
an Interim Client & Design Award is included in
the Whole Project Award fee. For further details on
fees, please download a pdf file with the detailed
CEEQUAL feescale.
In addition, the applicant organisation will need to
train or contract in a CEEQUAL Assessor. The current
fee for each 2-day Assessor Training Course is £785
plus VAT.
CEEQUAL Assessor training courses are held regularly
throughout the UK. Please check the Training
Courses page for forthcoming courses and
to download the relevant booking form.
If you wish to apply for an award or find out more
about doing so, please use the link to the Contacts
page and complete the response form.
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