Comprehensive environmental safety of construction

Abstract

The relevance of the problem of comprehensive environmental safety in civil engineering is continually increasing for two reasons. Firstly, the rapid population growth dictates the need to escalate the scope and pace of construction. Secondly, the scale of construction is increasing against the background of the growing concern of the population about the deterioration of environmental conditions. The aim of the article is multidimensional analysis of this problem. The present research is of interdisciplinary nature and is based on the critical analysis and synthesis of a great number of heterogeneous materials concerning particular aspects of environmental safety of construction. The basis of environmental safety in civil engineering is timely identification of threats to public health as well as the risks of unacceptable deterioration of environmental conditions in the course of construction of buildings and structures. The solution of this problem should be simultaneously addressed along two different lines. The first one is maintaining external environmental safety. The second direction is internal ecological safety. The systemic solution of the problem can be implemented on the basis of the developed Programme for identification and assessment of factors underlying external and internal environmental safety of construction.