Essays:

Descriptive essay

The Environmental Management Systems are control measures for companies that work with raw materials from the environment.  Companies like sawmills, construction, pharmaceutical, industrial etc. Are those that can implement this control rules.

The principal goal for organizations is control the impacts that their activities causes in the environment, in the area of civil engineering environmental impacts can be justified by studies of environmental impact, in which describes a problem that will be caused by engineering work, in which they seek a solution to the problem.

In the ISO 14000 take into account several factors such as:

•         Top Management must be committed to and involved in the design and implementation of the EMS.

•         They will write the Environmental Policy and be responsible for making sure it is communicated and implemented.

Currently in civil engineering this type of certification does not seem very important due to the lack of laws in the country, causing more pollution to the environment from the construction companies.