Making Cities Greener and Healthier

It’s not just the way things are built that is beneficial to the environment – what gets built oftentimes is the environmental achievement in itself.

Think about the environmental impact of water and wastewater systems, sewage systems, wind energy projects, and public transit networks – all these facilities ensure that our towns and cities are cleaner, healthier and less polluted.

But construction also helps to clean up polluted areas as well. Brownfields are an excellent example. Brownfields are heavily polluted parcels of land, usually in core urban centres, that sit idle due to contamination. It is the job of remediation contractors to clean up these areas, and dispose of the contaminated soils in an environmentally friendly fashion – which allows cities to make use of these prime plots of land and ensure a cleaner, healthier city for all.