More and more attention is being paid to environmental awareness and ways to prevent environmental pollution and maintain the quality of natural resources. Building bridges is an activity that has a great impact on nature and can significantly damage the immediate environment. It is essential that today's and future bridge builders recognize today's problems and apply certain knowledge and tools so that these problems can be solved in the simplest way. By applying such means, simple and inexpensive construction can be achieved, while meeting environmental standards that are extremely important today more than before. There are methods and ways to preserve nature and reduce environmental pollution to a minimum, while other aspects such as construction and the final product do not suffer. A lot of people with different attitudes and prior knowledge take part in the construction of bridges, but it is extremely important that each of the participants in the construction knows how they can contribute to ecological construction with their actions, which is closely related to the quality and speed of construction. It is in the interest of every contractor that the process they control is fast, well organized, simple and safe for each of the participants. By applying certain tools of environmentally conscious construction, all these criteria can be met with proper planning and organization of the construction process.