Whether we work in harbour areas, along coastlines or offshore, we have a responsibility to protect life beneath the sea surface.
How do we avoid unnecessarily disturbing seals, fish, and eelgrass? How do we create new high-quality habitats – and how can we engage in dialogue with business partners to integrate the protection of nature into building and construction projects?
These are some of the questions addressed in our new guide to biodiversity in and by the sea.
Initiatives you can use in practice
The guide has been developed to inspire our colleagues, business partners, and clients to incorporate biodiversity into building and construction projects in and by the sea. It is designed as a practical “how to” guide and provides an overview of, among other things:
- The benefits of incorporating environmental considerations at an early stage of planning and design
- Noise-reducing methods, such as bubble curtains and soft-start procedures
- The establishment of habitats, including stone reefs and eelgrass meadows
Local biodiversity
It is no secret that the building and construction industry’s greatest impact on nature and biodiversity lies outside the construction site – particularly in the extraction of raw materials and the production of the materials we work with. But local initiatives also play an important role. This is where our machines operate, and here we are able to take responsibility through specific choices and solutions in our workday.
As our Group CEO, Jesper Kristian Jacobsen, states in the introduction to the guide:
"We will contribute positively to biodiversity and ecosystems in our workday and at our projects. It applies both on land and when we work on, in and by the sea, and we hope to inspire others to do the same.”
Be inspired to incorporate biodiversity into everyday practice – read the guide below.
If you work mainly on land rather than at sea, you can also read Aarsleff’s guide to biodiversity on land.