Ensuring environmental safety during construction works is an important condition for the sustainable development of single-industry towns. The high rate of urbanization, population growth of single-industry towns and their active construction leads to negative anthropogenic changes in the en-vironment, which negatively affects both the ecology and the life of the population of a single-industry town. In this article the basic factors of the influence of the sphere of construction on the environment are considered, the aspects of providing ecological safety during construction are investigated, the normative-legal base regulating these aspects during construction works is analyzed, and also possible approaches and measures to decrease the negative influence of construction on the environment in monotowns are given.
The article proposes measures to reduce the negative impact on the environment and improve envi-ronmental safety of construction in single-industry towns, such as complementing the existing legisla-tion with stricter standards and requirements to ensure environmental safety during construction work in single-industry towns, development and active implementation of modern environmental materials and technologies, strengthening environmental control mechanisms of the construction sphere in sin-gle-industry towns and raising awareness of business and population. The article was prepared based on the results of research carried out at the expense of budgetary funds under the state assignment of the Financial University.