Programme

To get more information on the Brownfield Risk Assessment 2010 conference, please download the full programme attachment below.

Here is what some of the speakers had to say about their presentations:

Identification and assessment of risks from a very large, complex former industrial site
"Large, complex former, industrial sites present special challenges for the risk assessor whether looking at human health or risks to the water environment.  These challenges may be exacerbated by long development programmes and by the presence on non-standard receptors that need to be considered.  The presentation will discuss development of the conceptual site model where several sources may be present and ways of considering unusual receptors."

More effective investigation of chemically and radioactively contaminated land using on-site measurements
"On site measurements can reduce the cost of investigating and developing brownfield sites, but they are treated with a lack of trust my many users and regulators. The solution to this problem is to evaluate and state the uncertainty of all measurements (on site and in lab-based) and allow for this uncertainty in the assessment of the hazard, exposure and risk. Recent case studies on chemically and radioactively contaminated sites will be used to illustrate this solution. The interpretation on both on site and lab-based measurements will be made using the Support Tool for Reliable Environmental Measurement (STREM), which includes the Optimised Contaminated Land Investigation (OCLI) method. This will be used to show that on site measurements often have larger uncertainty than their lab-based equivalents, but can be equally fit-for-purpose in many situations."