Bond Street awarded environmental award

The Green Line is Crossrail's environmental award scheme, which rewards individuals and teams on its construction sites for tackling environmental issues and supporting environmental best practice. Chris Sexton, Crossrail's Technical Director, presented the award to the project team on recently.

In order to obtain the award, the team had to submit a comprehensive assessment of the project as well as an audit to demonstrate the commitment and regular involvement of the leadership team; visibly communicated environmental objectives; progress against targets monitored and regular feedback provided; and visible environmental engagement like site inspections.

The awards aim to improve environmental awareness and achieve positive environmental behaviour change across all of Crossrail's sites, with the ultimate aim of improving environmental performance.

"The biggest focus on C412 has been the promotion of behavioural change and increasing the amount of reported environmental observations, which really highlighted the commitment of the project team in promoting environmental awareness and behaviour change," said Melissa Wellings, the Environment Manager working on the project.

"The biggest focus on C412 has been the promotion of behavioural change and increasing the amount of reported environmental observations, which really highlighted the commitment of the project team in promoting environmental awareness and behaviour change," said Melissa Wellings, the Environment Manager working on the project.

Following a behavioural awareness campaign, the project recorded a near four-fold increase in environmental observations between February and March 2015.

The award cannot be awarded based on short-term initiatives as the evidence has to demonstrate consistent 'buy-in' from everyone on the site over a period of time. There is also a follow up site visit from a Crossrail Environmental representative to ensure that improvements have been made.

"Regular monitoring of environmental observations takes place and there are monthly awareness campaigns on different environmental topics along with environmental toolbox talks," said Melissa.

Under the C412 contract, CSJV is responsible for the main construction and fit-out of the Western Ticket Hall near Davies Street and the Eastern Ticket Hall near Hanover Square. Once completed, the Bond Street Crossrail station will be directly linked to the tube station, enabling passengers to interchange between Crossrail and London Underground services.