Presented by Eng. Maitha Ali Al Nuaimi from the General Authority “works”A working paper entitled “”Developing environmental management performance in Public Works Authority projects”, in which she reviewed the role of the Environmental Affairs Section in the Quality and Safety Department in Ashghal, in providing many initiatives to improve the performance of environmental management for projects, as it is a supportive department for all other Ashghal departments, with a major role in ensuring that projects comply with environmental regulations and standards, including the creation of a portal for submitting monthly reports To perform environmental management (EPMS).She pointed out that the Ashghal Green Award, which is a unique annual award that was developed to raise awareness of sustainable practices in construction, help reduce and reduce harmful environmental impacts resulting from the authority’s projects, and create a list of companies from service providers to work in environmental management a and sustainability in Ashghal projects. Confirming that the Research and Development Department of the Department cooperates in the environmental field by using the environment laboratory, chemistry laboratory and microbiology laboratory in various related analyses, as well as a mobile noise and air quality monitoring vehicle that supports project departments to improve the environment impacts generated during construction.
She explained that given the large number of projects with construction activities ongoing at the same time, developing a unique and unified tool for monitoring environmental management performance for each project, department or at the level of the Public Works Authority is a major challenge.
During the working paper, she touched on the environmental performance monitoring system, which is a monthly questionnaire related to environmental management, where the registration system is used in the performance management system to allow projects to focus on areas of improvement, which contributes to commitment to environmental best practices, and implementing implementing environmental control plans and mitigation measures. As Ashghal has its own environmental goals that are effectively included and implemented in its corporate strategies, especially since improving the performance of environmental management is a continuous process, and it wants “works” Demonstrate all its support to stakeholders by implementing several initiatives developed from lessons learned over the years and received feedback from project partners.
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