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SafetyCulture

Construction Sustainability

Improve sustainability efforts, enhance waste and pollution management, and streamline audits to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.

SafetyCulture has helped businesses around the world achieve

60%

reduction in reporting time*
49%

savings from safety & compliance improvements*
60%

increased audit & data management efficiency*

*Reported in Forrester’s study: The Total Economic Impact™ of SafetyCulture’s Operations Platform

Boost productivity on site

Everyday presents new challenges on a construction site. Keep everyone informed and aligned by conducting waste audits, carbon reporting, and monitoring pollution levels. The moment something changes, you can adapt processes and procedures in a few clicks, with changes rolling out instantly to everyone on site.

“SafetyCulture has saved us about 1,500 man hours per year. That’s a huge efficiency gain.”

Nick Argyropoulous
Managing Director, NA Group Civil and Road Construction

Prevent incidents and promote a safety culture

Encourage a supportive and inclusive culture where teams are comfortable reporting safety concerns and addressing potential risks. By making it easy for anyone to report observations, hazards, near misses, and incidents, you can respond quickly and put the right measures in place.

“Today, we’re at 2.5 million hours without a lost time injury. SafetyCulture allows us to achieve that. You don’t work 2.5 million hours and just be lucky.”

Steve DeWees
Project Executive, Level 10 Construction

Optimize onsite resource usage

Identify opportunities to minimize waste production by allocating resources more efficiently. Incorporate sensors into different areas of a construction site and check for temperature, humidity, air quality, and other factors that affect the quality of equipment, assets, and other supplies. Integrate inventory management systems for centralized monitoring to optimize resource allocation.

Incorporate field insights for data-driven decisions

Take advantage of powerful data analytics to assess how construction materials and processes impact the environment. Determine which aspects of a construction project contain gaps with sustainability efforts and implement corrective actions as needed.

Ensure compliance with environmental policies

Conduct frequent inspections across a construction site to verify compliance with environmental requirements. Easily create digital reports using checklists and include media attachments for supporting documentation when completing an audit.

Drive improvement across every jobsite

Environmental Audits 

Regulatory Compliance

Quality Inpsections

Safety Planning Documentation

Equipment Calibration

Waste Management 

Energy Management 

Risk Assessment 

ISO 14001 Compliance

Pollution Monitoring

Contractor Management 

Toolbox Talks 

Unlock a better way of working in Construction

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“You are going to get better quality out in the field if you run a clean, quality and safe job. That’s just the way we see it.”

Chris Wilcox
Senior Superintendent at Level 10 Construction
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Explore customizable solutions ready to meet your business needs

EHS

Health & Safety Management

Keep teams safe on the job while promoting a safety culture across your organization

GRC

Risk & Compliance

Identify, evaluate and mitigate risks to your teams and assets through greater visibility and a data-driven approach.

Quality

Operational Excellence

Optimize processes and drive productivity, greater efficiencies and quality products or services at scale.

ESG

Environment & Sustainability

Digitize SOP’s, reduce waste and adapt sustainability best practices the moment conditions change.

Get started with industry-leading templates

BREEAM Checklist

Achieve sustainability certification for commercial and residential buildings with BREEAM checklists.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Checklist

Ensure buildings and towers meet LEED practices consistently using this LEED checklist.

Sustainability Audit Checklist

Conduct streamlined checks of an organization’s sustainability practices using free sustainability audit checklists.

Environmental Aspects and Impacts Register Template

Document how your business operations and processes affect the environment and tailor your overall environmental management approach with the help of environmental aspects and impact register templates.

Post Construction Cleaning Checklist

Effectively perform post-construction cleaning to ensure quality and safety standards using post-construction cleaning checklists.

Environmental Audit Checklist

Analyze, verify, and improve your organization’s compliance with relevant environmental regulations with the help of environmental audit checklists.

Learn more from our construction industry experts

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By Leizel Estrellas  

Circular Construction for Eco-Building

By Rob Paredes

The Importance of Implementing Sustainable Business Practices

By Leon Altomonte 

Explore how SafetyCulture can enhance safety and quality in every jobsite

✓ Streamline processes ✓ Improve communication ✓ Minimize risks ✓ Boost productivity

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sustainability interacts with various processes throughout a construction project by integrating environmental, social, and economic aspects into each stage. For example, the planning phase would involve identifying eco-friendly materials, optimizing site location to reduce environmental impact, and still ensuring cost efficiency in building designs for sustainability. Resource management plays an important role in this, as sustainability goals can alter the coordination of different stakeholders and materials within the project.

Technology improves sustainability in construction by enabling more efficient use of resources, reducing waste, and enhancing overall project management. One of the primary ways is through integration, where green building technologies are integrated within existing systems to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints. This not only helps streamline operations but also provides long-term efficiency and sustainability.

Using sustainability-focused software for construction is crucial since it helps project managers and teams track and optimize resources, ensuring that materials, energy, and resources are used responsibly. This kind of software is typically designed to provide data-driven insights that meet green standards, allowing for more accurate environmental impact assessments for a construction project.

All stakeholders involved in a construction project benefit from using software for construction sustainability. However, operations managers, contractors, and safety managers are the ones who are likely to use it more often. This kind of software provides better visibility over operations and how sustainability aligns with the overall goals of a project, which helps them plan better.

As a platform, SafetyCulture can be used to foster sustainability in construction through seamless integration and powerful analytics. SafetyCulture has features that make it easy to streamline sustainable practices into existing processes while providing better visibility over operations through data analysis. This not only boosts operational efficiency but also promotes best practices for the environment and the safety of everyone involved in a construction project.