This Brown and Pleasant Land:
A Framework for Success
Institution of Civil Engineers and Forum on Contamination in Land

FREE Half Day Seminar for Clients and Professionals involved in the
development of brownfield sites.

Wednesday 27 January 1999 at 2pm

Aim
? To build on the political and strategic framework established by the
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology in their report, ‘This Brown
and Pleasant Land’, and subsequent seminar held in November 1998.
? To provide an opportunity for the professions to demonstrate the way in
which their experience, knowledge and skills are applied to the remediation
process.
Audience
? Clients
? Developers
? Bankers
? Insurers
? Town planners
? Engineers
? Environmental Health Officers
? Those members of multi-disciplinary teams that will be involved in
carrying out investigations and developing remediation measures in
satisfying planning authorities as they strive to meet the government’s
target of 60% of new housing to be developed on brownfield sites.

Programme
1400 Registration
1415 Keynote Address
   Trevor Osborne (tbc) - Chairman,  Urban Villages Forum
1430 The Economics of Redevelopment
   Michael Jayne - Staffordshire University
1445 The Risk Assessment Approach
   Paul Nathanail (Geological Society) - Nottingham University
1500  Investigation Techniques
    Hugh Mallett (Association of Geotechnical Specialists) - Aspinwall
1515 Coffee
1530 The  Role of the Laboratory
   Lesley Heasman - M J Carter Associates
1545 The NHBC Land Quality Initiative
   Alex Richie - National House Building Council
1600 Remediation Techniques: The Story so Far
   Judith Denner - Parkman Consultants
1615 Future Prospects
   Lorna Walker  (ICE Environment and Sustainability Board, and Lord
Rogers Task  Force) - Ove Arup
1630 Discussion

For information contact Kate Cairns @ ICE Tel: 0171 665 2221 or e-mail:
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I/We will be attending the seminar ‘This Brown and Pleasant Land - A
Framework for Success’ on January 27 1999 at 2pm at the ICE One Great George
Street Westminster London SW1P 3AA
Please return to Kate Cairns at the ICE as above or fax 0171 799 1325
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Organizers reserve the right to change the programme at any time.

Dr Paul Nathanail
MSc Contaminated Land Management

Land Quality Management
School of Chemical Environmental and Mining Engineering
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UNITED KINGDOM

tel 0115 951 4098
fax 0115 951 4640
mobile 07970 843 061

MSc Contaminated Land Management modules can be attended as short course.
Forthcoming modules are:

7-11.12.98 Environmental economics and contaminated land valuation
4-8.1.99     Site Investigation
11-15.1.99 Ecology, toxicology and epidemiology
1-5.2.99     Risk assessment I
1-5.3.99     Risk assessment II

10-12.2.99 Use of GIS for contaminated land characterisation
8-12.3.99   Geostatisics for contaminated land risk assessment
19-23.4.99 Risk models for contaminated land

8-9.2.99     Natural Attenuation
10-12.2 99 Remediation Engineering I
8-12.3.99   Remediation Engineering II
19-23.4.99 Remediation Engineering III

Contact me for further details




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