Month: October 2003

Technically speaking

Black & Veatch's Frank Rogalla looks into the treatment of sewage overflows

Standardisation used to drive improved environmental performance

Claire Monkhouse from the IEEP looks at the latest developments at the European Commission

Agreement on eco-design directive

Claire Monkhouse from the IEEP looks at the latest developments at the European Commission

Measuring fuel cell performance by Catherine Early

Researchers at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts have launched a programme to discover ways to improve how fuel cells perform and what they cost to operate.

UV treatment promises mercury removal by Catherine Early

A promising technology to remove mercury from coal-fired power plant emissions has been developed and is currently being tested at the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

Greening Brownfield and Contaminated Sites

By Tony Hutchings and Andy Moffat, Forest Research
The sustainable restoration of brownfield and contaminated land to “create safe and healthy local environments with well-designed public and green space” (Sustainable Communities Plan, ODPM, 2003) poses technical and social challenges. Many derelict sites have a low intrinsic economic value and so do not attract investment from leading corporate redevelopers, yet the dereliction process notoriously leaves a legacy of contamination and physical substrate problems which are financially costly to remedy.

Industry Experts Call for Remediation Trade Association.

By Craig Sillars of Churngold Remediation
Brownfield site developers, local authorities and owners of contaminated land are currently facing three challenges which could affect the implementation of clean up programmes

Making best use of the nation’s scarce supply of land

By David Higgins, Chief Executive, English Partnerships.
English Partnerships is the national regeneration agency supporting high quality sustainable growth across the country. We are a key delivery agency for the urban renaissance and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Sustainable Communities Plan.

Newlands takes on massive regeneration programme in the Northwest

England’s Northwest has as much as 25 per cent of England’s derelict land. Some of this land will be contaminated but the totality presents a marvellous opportunity for integrated social, economic and environmental regeneration. Now the ambitious Newlands project is set to play a part in helping the Northwest realise this opportunity by regenerating some of the derelict, and in part contaminated, land.

How the Thames Gateway Seeks to Tackle Land Remediation

By Stephen Joseph, Deputy Chief Executive, Thames Gateway London Partnership.
The Thames in East London was, in the not too distant past, the docking and industrial engine room of the nation. This has left a legacy of often redundant land containing environmental problems from an era predating modern regulation of ground contamination.

Remediation of contaminated sites: An environmental perspective on brownfields regeneration and national strategies.

By Toby Willison, Head of Land Quality, Environment Agency.
Introduction
The Environment Agency is the Government’s principal adviser on the environment. Our interest in the Government’s policies for regeneration of brownfield land and in the remediation of contamination upon such land reflects our role in:

Remediation of contaminated sites: An environmental perspective on brownfields regeneration and national strategies.

By Toby Willison, Head of Land Quality, Environment Agency.
Introduction
The Environment Agency is the Government’s principal adviser on the environment. Our interest in the Government’s policies for regeneration of brownfield land and in the remediation of contamination upon such land reflects our role in:

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