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AEnvCoW is delighted to welcome Mott MacDonald as our new Principal Sponsor. Mott MacDonald’s support will help the Association continue to promote the Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW) role and improve environmental compliance across the development and construction industries.
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The Association of Environmental Clerks of Works (AEnvCoW), in collaboration with the Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Professionals (ISEP), is pleased to announce the publication of Environmental Clerks of Works: Industry Guiding Principles for Developments. Developed to support greater consistency, clarity and professionalism across the sector, the guiding principles set out core expectations for effective environmental compliance monitoring throughout development and construction projects. The publication marks an important step towards strengthening professional practice and improving environmental outcomes by promoting clear roles, robust governance and collaborative delivery.
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As the year draws to a close, it’s hard not to feel proud of what AEnvCoW has achieved together in 2025. This has been a year of growth, momentum and real influence – driven, as always, by the commitment of our volunteers, partners and members. So, in the spirit of the season, here’s my slightly festive take on our year – the 12 highlights of AEnvCoW (which you can sing along to...!)
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the refreshed 2025 AEnvCoW Supporting Organisations Framework. The new version strengthens partnership opportunities and expands our capacity to deliver greater impact through training, guidance, and industry engagement.
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We’re delighted to share that Binnies UK is continuing in their role as Corporate Sponsor. Their ongoing support is instrumental in helping us promote best practice, raise professional standards, and strengthen environmental compliance across the construction and development sectors.
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This International Bat Week (24–31 October), I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Carol Greenwell, and I’m a Senior Ecologist who has worked in the environmental sector for over six years. Over that time, I’ve developed a strong passion for environmental compliance, which led me to become a volunteer with AEnvCoW in 2025.
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Registration is now open for the AEnvCoW Annual Conference 2026, “Raising Standards, Reducing Environmental Impacts: Good Practice Guidance for Compliance.” Join us on Thursday, 5 March 2026, at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh.
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AEnvCoW added its name to Scottish Environment LINK’s response to the Scotland Environment Strategy 2025 Consultation, submitted on 29 September 2025.
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Following his well-attended sessions at the AEnvCoW 2025 Spring Conference in Manchester, NEC Specialist Richard Patterson (Mott MacDonald) has written a follow-up article exploring how the Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW) fits within NEC Engineering and Construction Contracts – and what this means for real-world project delivery.
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We have set out our views on the proposed Planning and Infrastructure Bill 2025, focusing on Part 3: Development and Nature Recovery.
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Last month we held our Spring Conference 2025 in Manchester and it was our biggest and best yet. With 76 passionate professionals in the room from all cohorts of the industry, we tackled key challenges in environmental compliance, shared insights, and sparked important conversations.
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of AEnvCoW’s 2025–2028 Strategy, which sets a clear direction for strengthening the Environmental Clerk of Works (EnvCoW) role and advancing environmental compliance across the development and construction sectors. Find out more here
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We are excited to kick-start the year with three events that are not to miss:
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As the year draws to a close, I am delighted to reflect on the tangible progress AEnvCoW has made in our key strategic areas, thanks to the hard work of our volunteers. Here are some highlights from 2024:
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Watch what we got up to at our Annual Conference 2023 in this quick video!
Our conference for 2023 was held in The Guildhall in York on the theme Construction Environmental Compliance: What are the Challenges & Where are the Opportunities?
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We are looking for volunteers to be part of a team working to draft industry guiding principles.
If you are interested in being a part of this team, we would be most grateful if you could sign up using the form below before 01/12/23:
https://forms.gle/p6okwAGGLAT9TYEj6
We are more than happy to provide further information on this, should you wish for it, so please do get in touch at
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We were delighted to participate in Scottish Government consultation last week regarding environmental governance. We have supported it’s proposal to establish an environmental court, which we believe would enhance environmental governance and help drive up environmental compliance and outcomes. A critical element to this is monitoring data, and the role of an Environmental Clerks of Works, which we are promoting and defining with Government Agencies and other stakeholders.
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As part of our ongoing partnership with IEMA, AECoW was invited to participate in it’s consultation on Environmental Outcome Reports through our joint Post Consent Environmental Performance Working Group. Summary key information is below and further information is on IEMA’s website here. The full final response from the Working Group is located here.
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We were delighted to meet the RSPB again on the 26th May. We discussed several items of mutual interest, including:
– Parliamentary Questions
– Planning conditions for EnvCoWs
– Construction / temporary assessments of EIAs & RSPBs responses to them
– Drafting Industry Guiding Principles for EnvCoWs
– Environmental Outcome Reports
– Potential areas of research that both AECoW & RSPB would support (namely to build an evidence base & highlight the need for robust EnvCoW roles and responsibilities, guidance and related regulatory reform to drive up environmental compliance).
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- Stakeholder Consultation Update: Planning Inspectorate (PINS) & Oxford Brookes University
- IEMA & AECoW Consultation Update
- Natural Capital Impacts during Construction: Linear Infrastructure Env.Man. Group – Update
- Scottish Cross-Parliamentary Group on Construction
- Natural Resource Wales Stakeholder Meeting
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