Day: 1 April 2002

A drop in the ocean

Water: an odourless, tasteless, transparent liquid that is colourless in small amounts; the most abundant liquid on the planet covering 70 per cent of the Earth's surface; essential for life; consumption rising; recycling essential. Lora Lee Brown, marketing manager of Water Dynamics, reveals how grey water recycling and simple conservation techniques can save companies more than just the odd drop.

Building industry backs sustainable development

The Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) takes a leading role in reviewing the building and civil engineering industry's responsibilities in developing sustainable construction and promoting initiatives and solutions. Christopher Harris, Head of the Environment Group, explains how CIRIA can help local government in the business of building

Heavyweight recycling plant goes on show at Site Clearance Zone

The major advances that specialist contractors and machinery manufacturers have made in the areas of contaminated land, clearance, materials reclamation, demolition and recycling, are reflected once again this year in kit being demonstrated in the dedicated area for the very latest in specialist equipment - the Site Clearance Zone at SED

A sustainable solution

When people talk about energy reduction and management through waste minimisation techniques, the governing factors relative to the success, or otherwise, of a project of this nature is the ability of the company, or more specifically the local management, to sustain the efforts on a long-term basis. Recognising the danger of losing this focus, Aqua Enviro have developed a front end software programme to be used in conjunction with many data capture and processing systems to depict real time energy costs and consumption rates, as operations manager,
Mark Lowe, discusses.

Information, information, information

A trinity of websites that provide information about the latest greenhouse gas reducing technologies, and display demonstration projects as proof, have been given a facelift by operating agent, Future Energy Solutions (FES).
IEM talked to Richard Shock, project director at FES, about mitigating greenhouse gas emissions over the world wide web.

Exploding a time bomb

A waste dump contaminated with chemicals, radioactivity and live munitions is certainly a place to tread carefully. Beverly La Ferla visits a site near Oxford that is coming to the end of a two-year remediation programme.

The sweet smell of succes

A unique alliance between Britain's biggest coal producer and one of its customers is benefiting the environment with a sustainable landscaping opportunity.

Breaking new ground

The contaminated land market is about to receive a major boost from legislative and fiscal changes as well as the government inspired drive to use more brownfield sites for housebuilding. A major beneficiary will be Eco-Smart, the newly launched contaminated ground specialist which is part of the Roger Bullivant group, as Nick Barrett reports from a major Eco-Smart clean up site.

What’s in a name?

A bottle of champagne is on ice for the person who comes up with the most appropriate title for what has thus far been dubbed the Single Remediation Permit - a new initiative aimed at improving the licencing regime for the remediation of contaminated land. What's in a name? Matt MacAllan reports.

Recycled materials get the green light

Sally Ellis, Group Manager, Sustainable Construction, TRL Ltd, reviews the use of recycled materials used in road construction which are making a major contribution in the drive towards sustainable construction

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