Green light is a compliance and environmental best practice service.

The programme is designed to assist resource consent holders to achieve three key outcomes during the lifecycle of construction engineering and development projects:

• demonstrate compliance with resource consents and other environmental permits
• implementation of environmental best-practice
• positive working relationships with consent authorities and other key stakeholders

GreenLight balances these outcomes against three other factors:

• potential for environmental effects based on the activities proposed
• scale of the project
• environmental performance track record of the parties involved

In order to deliver a consistently high level of environmental compliance, which is appropriate to the scale and extent of the project, GreenLight involves a series of key activities, scheduled to coincide with key project milestones at the design, pre-construction, construction, post-construction and operational phases of a construction project.

These activities include:

• ensuring that all necessary permits are in place, and pre-construction conditions have been met prior to works commencing on site
• attendance at pre-construction site meetings to raise and resolve key compliance issues
• Regular site visits during construction to:
   - Determine the compliance status of the project in relation to consent requirements and permitted activity criteria,
   - Collect evidence of compliance, and
   - identify any key compliance risks requiring action by site supervisors
• consent authority liaison and management of relationships with compliance officers and key stakeholder groups
• identification of environmental performance weaknesses amongst contractors and provision of suitable education material and training sessions to up-skill site staff according to current best-practice standards
• entering all compliance information and other relevant environmental performance information into cs-vue - a state-of-the-art online compliance database

GreenLight is undertaken in accordance with an agreed project-specific methodology, which includes defined communication pathways and escalation procedures.  Using an agreed methodological approach minimises the possibility of transferring contractual risk and provides clear procedures for all parties.

For further information, contact Aaron Andrew: aarona@andrewstewart.co.nz