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The winners of the fourth Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards were announced last night after a celebratory dinner held at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel in front of an audience of over 300 movers and shakers in the contaminated land industry and their guests.
The host for the evening was Prof Chris Baines, one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners, and an award-winning writer and TV broadcaster. Also addressing guests was Euan Hall, Chief Executive of the Land Restoration Trust and Chair of the British Land Reclamation Society.
These Awards aim to recognise best practice in remediation and use of remediation technology throughout the UK.
This event was sponsored by Landmark, ERM, GroundSure, National Grid, and the NHBC. It was also supported by BURA and IEMA.
For details of these entries and the runners up click on the link here .
The Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards for 2009 will be held on 15th September with calls for entries announced late April, 2008. For more information on the Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards, please contact Anna Cairncross, Head of Marketing:
Email: annacairncross@newzeye.com Tel: + 44 (0)20 8969 1008
The Soil and Groundwater Technology Association (SAGTA) is conducting a member’s workshop on 9th September, to which BLRS members are invited. These workshops are not only very informative but also provide an excellent networking event.
Large Sites and Mega Sites is the title of the workshop and more details can be found here.
It is hosted by Land Restoration Trust, at Haydock Park Racecourse, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0HQ. LRT’s contact for information is Deborah Holmwood (Email: deborahholmwood@landrestorationtrust.org.uk, Tel: 01925 644779). A booking form can be found here.
As this is not a BLRS organised event, any member wishing to attend the
workshop should make their booking direct with SAGTA, but you might wish
to note your BLRS membership on the registration form.
The 3rd International Conference on Managing Urban Land is being organised by CABERNET and the Etablissement public foncier de l’Ouest Rhône Alpes (EPORA) in Saint-Etienne, France.
EPORA is a public land management authority, created in 1998 heading brownfield regeneration work in liaison with the local authorities and planners of the Rhône-Alpes region, namely Saint-Etienne.
CABERNET, Europe’s sustainable brownfield regeneration network, aims to share good practice and the develop cross-disciplinary shared understanding essential to cost effective, socially desirable and environmentally benevolent regeneration.
Short abstracts (200 words) or suggestions for special sessions are requested by 31 October 2008. The programme committee is particularly interested in case studies representing best practices that are transferable to other regions and countries. Short papers/ extended abstracts will be published.
For more information, see the flyer, or the website www.cabernet.org.uk .
Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards 2008 Winners Announced
Thu 18th Sep 2008
The host for the evening was Prof Chris Baines, one of the UK's leading environmental campaigners, and an award-winning writer and TV broadcaster. Also addressing guests was Euan Hall, Chief Executive of the Land Restoration Trust and Chair of the British Land Reclamation Society.
These Awards aim to recognise best practice in remediation and use of remediation technology throughout the UK.
This event was sponsored by Landmark, ERM, GroundSure, National Grid, and the NHBC. It was also supported by BURA and IEMA.
For details of these entries and the runners up click on the link here .
The Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards for 2009 will be held on 15th September with calls for entries announced late April, 2008. For more information on the Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards, please contact Anna Cairncross, Head of Marketing:
Email: annacairncross@newzeye.com Tel: + 44 (0)20 8969 1008
SAGTA Workshop - Large Sites and Mega Sites - 9th Sept, Haydock Park Racecourse, Merseyside
Sat 16th Aug 2008
Large Sites and Mega Sites is the title of the workshop and more details can be found here.
It is hosted by Land Restoration Trust, at Haydock Park Racecourse, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, WA12 0HQ. LRT’s contact for information is Deborah Holmwood (Email: deborahholmwood@landrestorationtrust.org.uk, Tel: 01925 644779). A booking form can be found here.
As this is not a BLRS organised event, any member wishing to attend the
workshop should make their booking direct with SAGTA, but you might wish
to note your BLRS membership on the registration form.
CABERNET 2009 3rd International Conference on Managing Urban Land - Call for abstracts and Pre announcement
Mon 7th Jul 2008
13th to 15th May 2009
The 3rd International Conference on Managing Urban Land is being organised by CABERNET and the Etablissement public foncier de l’Ouest Rhône Alpes (EPORA) in Saint-Etienne, France.
EPORA is a public land management authority, created in 1998 heading brownfield regeneration work in liaison with the local authorities and planners of the Rhône-Alpes region, namely Saint-Etienne.
CABERNET, Europe’s sustainable brownfield regeneration network, aims to share good practice and the develop cross-disciplinary shared understanding essential to cost effective, socially desirable and environmentally benevolent regeneration.
Short abstracts (200 words) or suggestions for special sessions are requested by 31 October 2008. The programme committee is particularly interested in case studies representing best practices that are transferable to other regions and countries. Short papers/ extended abstracts will be published.
For more information, see the flyer, or the website www.cabernet.org.uk .
