University helps developers meet land challenge

An University of Greenwich product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Mar 31, 2006

Business breakfast at University of Greenwich will start with a critical assessment of current technologies for handling contaminated land by independent consultant Mike Summersgill.

Developers and contractors working with brown-field sites are invited to attend a breakfast at the University of Greenwich at Medway to meet commercial companies and scientists specialising in techniques to remediate contaminated land in line with the new EU Landfill Directive.

The business breakfast on Wednesday, April 26, will start with a critical assessment of current technologies for handling contaminated land by independent consultant Mike Summersgill.

Mr Summersgill's talk will be followed by presentations and displays of current and developing techniques of soil remediation by university scientists as well as specialists from companies, including Ecologia and Edge.

The breakfast meeting is being staged by the University of Greenwich business innovation hubs, Business Link Kent and Kent Sustainable Business Partnership.

Dr Deborah Rees, Business Fellow for Environmental Sciences at the University of Greenwich at Medway, says: "In the past, many developers relied on removing potentially contaminated soil from sites.

Now legislative constraints mean that it is economically much better to remediate the soil on site and there are a growing number of technologies available to handle the wide range of possible contaminants.

"We are aiming to give owners and developers of brown-field sites a chance to learn more about the types of remediation now available and an opportunity to quiz the technologists about the problems they currently face in meeting the new regulations".

The breakfast meeting will run from 7.30am to 10am in The Ward Room, Pembroke Building, the University of Greenwich at Medway, at Chatham Maritime, on Wednesday, April 26.

Delegate places, priced £20, are available from Jo Fiore, at the University of Greenwich at Medway, tel: 0208 331 8439, email: j.fiore@gre.ac.uk .

Registration will close on April 19.