The Environmental Construction Operations Plan (ECO Plan) Framework is a tool that facilitates effective environmental management on the work site and is the Contractor's plan for the identification and mitigation of potential environmental impacts that may occur as a result of their activities. In 2000 Alberta Transportation developed the ECO Plan framework as a means of ensuring that the roles and responsibilities with respect to preventing, or minimizing, the environmental impacts associated with project work are clearly identified prior to the commencement of work. In 2003 The City of Calgary approached Alberta Transportation about the prospect of adopting the ECO Plan framework for their work sites. The City of Calgary was granted this permission and shortly thereafter ECO Plans were being used on work sites for city projects. However, beyond the initial request to share the ECO Plan framework the two jurisdictions did not work closely together with respect to coordinating ECO Plan development and the two frameworks quickly became distinctly different documents. The City of Edmonton did not have an ECO Plan, or equivalent, in place prior to 2008. In 2008, Alberta Transportation, and The Cities of Calgary and Edmonton developed a common Environmental Construction Operations (ECO) Plan Framework (the Framework) to meet the needs of the three jurisdictions. This project was nominated for the TAC 2009 Environmental Achievement Award. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD number E220308.
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