1. Sustainable Remediation Innovation Group Jan 2012
Key points
Awareness
o Client awareness often lacking
o Professional development - need for early career awareness how sustainability fits
within whole-project life-cycles
Local planning frameworks need to emphasise sustainability (localism agenda)
Risk assessment
o Critical factor in determining need, extent and type of remediation (appropriate
remediation)
Allows better decisions and enhanced design
Phasing/zoning
Maximise re-use and targeted treatments
Sustainability assessment
o Resource projects early to bring sustainability vision in at earliest possible phase
o When appropriate to bring in external stakeholders?
And whom?
Remediation strategy
o Maximise flexibility to allow “updating” for sustainability improvements
o Transparent and justified assessments
Sustainable remediation is not necessarily more expensive or of longer duration!
o Long-term treatments may have higher cost and technical uncertainty in economic
assessment
o This is a common misunderstanding
o There is as much certainty with “sustainable” remediation designs as with
“Traditional”
Planning conditions re. verification for longer-term treatments
o Discharge challenges
o Client looking for walk-away rather than long-term management
Financial provision
