Programme
9:00 Registration and tea and coffee
9:30 Welcome from the chair
Jonathan Atkinson Environmental Scientist, Environment Agency Policy, legislation and economics
9:40 Directives update - the big 4
Water Framework Directive
Soil Framework Directive
Environmental Liability Directive/Environmental Damage Regulation
Waste Framework Directive
Kathy Mylrea, Consultant Solicitor, CSM Cameron McKenna LLP
10:05 Waste Code of Practice - interpretation, lessons learned, feedback, evolution, next steps
Major benefits and limitations identified after 1 year of application
Using the CoP with confidence when tendering?
Application to Clusters sites, progress with Fixed Soil Treatment Facilities
Transfer of materials between sites - when will it be included in the CoP?
Frank Evans, Performance Manager, National Grid Property
10:30 Remediation Permits
Update on environmental permits and how they apply to remediation and how they tie in with other authorisations
Ged Duckworth, Managing Director, Ged Duckworth Limited
10:55 Q&A
11:05 Coffee and tea break
11:35 What are the forecasts for growth and how will demand be stimulated in the current economic environment?
Quantifying the impact of the economic environment on property development and the remediation sector - what are the forecasts for growth?
How is the downturn influencing demand for remediation and selection of remediation techniques? Should the economics drive the technology choices?
What are the contractors forecasting in terms of demand and with what influence on remediation strategy?
Ian Heasman, Brownfield Remediation Manager, Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd
12:00 "Better By Design"
What is the HCA and why are we interested in remediation?
What actions are being proposed at a central and local level to asssess and stimulate demand?
Outline of SuRF UK Framework and overview of the next steps
Dr Richard Boyle, Brownfield Technical Consultant, Design an Sustainability, Homes and Communities Agency
12:25 Skills framework
The SiLC land condition skills development framework - and output from the National Brownfield Strategy
Matthew Whitehead, Technical Advisor, Contaminated Land, Environment Agency
12:50 Q&A
13:00 Lunch Remediation in practice - cost-effectiveness,sustainability and best practice planning
What are the economics and practical realities of longer-term and less intensive solutions?
Is natural attenuation becoming more acceptable - has it been used yet to actually close the site out?
Will potentially lower cost, lower energy intensive remediation techniques may have a greater role to play?
13:50 Keynote Speaker - American developments
US EPA Programme - what will be the impact of the new stimulus package funding on brownfield development?
Site restoration and sustainability - a road to the future or a view of the past
Systems based decision making - working with nature, not against it
Rebecca Wallace, Newfields
14:20 Case Study
Project Delauney - Delivering remediation of a deep DNAPL source zone
Client requirements:
Regulatory approval
Minimal long term liability
Sale of land
The solution:
Cutting edge investigation using Waterloo profiler
Source treatment using surfactant flushing and EVO injection
Dr Joe Teer, QDS Mr James Baldock, ERM
14:40 Sustainable remediation
Defining sustainability in remediation - what progress is being made on providing a clear road map?
Measuring sustainability; primary and secondary impacts?
What are the options for sustainable remediation technology selection?
Sarah MacKay, Senior Technical Director, WSP Remediation Ltd
15:00 Remediation of Ince Central Estate in Wigan
Mouchel were commissioned in 2004 by Wigan Council to undertake an appraisal of remediation options for a housing estate in Wigan suspected to have been built on Contaminated Land. The three year remediation scheme is the largest Part IIA project in the UK.
Tony Brown SiLC, Mouchel
John Crowther SiLC, Mouchel
15:25 UK megasites panel discussion - update on planning, sustainability and evolving remediation technology choices
Olympics
Avenue Coking Works
Dr Jan Hellings, Project Sponsor - Enabling Works, Olympic Delivery Authority
Mike Fenton, Project Manager, East Midlands Development Agency
16:00 Coffee and tea break
Remediation techniques toolbox - innovative, affordabable solutions for challenging economic conditions - a snapshot
16:30 Case Study - St. Modwen - Remediation Case Studies from South West - Coed Darcy and Baglan Bay
The Regeneration proposals
Coed Darcy - remediation strategy and progress
Neil Williams, Construction Manager, St. Modwen
16:50 Case Study
Use of microwave energy for the remediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils
Authors: Sam Kingman, Richelieu Barranco, Chenbo Yi, John Robinson
The presentation will introduce microwave processing fundamentals and explain the interaction of microwave energy with soils.
Professor Sam Kingman, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Univestity of Nottingham
17:10 Case Study
In-Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) - technology update
The presentation will focus on the application of ISRFH at a former Total UK service station where the underlying chalk soil had been impacted by hydrocarbon contamination.
Dr Giacomo Maini, Managing Director, Ecologia Environmental Solutions Ltd
17:30 Q&A
