The 2nd International Conference on
Sustainable Remediation 2012 November 14 – 16, 2012 in Vienna, Austria
FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Cooperating international partners
Cooperating national partners
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
VENUES Wednesday & Friday The conference venue is the Vienna observatory, named Urania as the muse of astronomy, situated close to the city centre and is easily accessible by public transport (metro lines U1, U3 & U4).
The Welcome Reception will also take place at Urania.
Thursday The conference venue is the University and Research Centre BOKU at Campus Tulln Technopol, which is situated close to Vienna (approx. 25 km). Bus transport from and back to Vienna is provided.
The Conference Dinner will take place at Justizpalast, a historical venue situated aside to the Parliament building and providing views towards the city centre.
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:00 – 14:00 14:00
Registration
CONFERENCE OPENING Christian HOLZER, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water management, Director General, Head of Department Resource and Waste Management, Chemicals Policy Georg REBERNIG, Environment Agency Austria, Managing Director
14:10 – 16:00 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS (Session 1)
Chair: Joop VEGTER
14:10 – 14:20
Dietmar MÜLLER, Environment Agency Austria. Contaminated Land Management towards Sustainability
14:20 – 14:40
Jonathan W.N.SMITH, Shell Global Solutions and Chairman of SuRF-UK steering board. Building a Common Understanding on Sustainable Remediation – the SuRF-UK experience
14:40 – 15:00
Carlos PACHON, U.S. EPA. Protecting Human Health & the Environment with a Lower Environmental Footprint: US EPA’s Experience to Date
15:00 – 15:20
Karin HOLLAND, Haley & Aldrich. United States Sustainable Remediation Forum Technical Initiatives – Whole-System Sustainability Thinking for Optimal Decision Making
15:20 – 15:40
Bruce KENNEDY, CRC Care, Australia. A National Remediation Framework for Australia
15:40 – 16:00
Discussion
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee/Tea 16:30 – 18:00 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS (Session 2)
Chair: Sarah MacKay
16:30 – 16:50
Nick BRUNEEL, OVAM, Belgium. Green and Sustainable Remediation in Flanders
16:50 – 17:10
Hans-Peter KOSCHITZKY, University Stuttgart, Germany. An Approach Towards Sustainable Soil and Groundwater Remediation in Germany – State of the Art Report
17:10 – 17:30
Céline Blanc, BRGM, France. Benchmarking of Excavated Soil Reuse Management in Europe - Development of a French management framework
17:30 – 17:50
Barbara Maco, U.S. EPA. One Government Greener Cleanups on Military Land Collaboration
17:50 – 18:00
Discussion
18:30
WELCOME RECEPTION (at the meeting venue) CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (overview)
09:30
Plenary Topic
Scientific Workshop
Network Workshop
Sustainability Assessment (Session 3)
GREENLAND: Gentle soil remediation technologies
SuRFING the globe
11:00 11:30
Coffee / Tea + Poster Session Sustainability Assessment (Session 4)
13:00 14:00
GREENLAND: Gentle soil remediation technologies Lunch
Sustainability Management (Session 5)
Producing Biomass on Brownfields –Selection of Most Sustainable Approaches: The REJUVENATE Project
15:30 16:00
NICOLE (to be confirmed)
US EPA Seminar Green Remediation – Reducing the Environmental Footprints of Clean-Up
Coffee / Tea + Poster Session Sustainability Management (Session 6)
Producing Biomass on Brownfields –Selection of Most Sustainable Approaches: The REJUVENATE Project
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (morning plenary sessions)
08:30 BUS DEPARTURE FROM VIENNA (near Urania) TO TULLN (UFT)
09:30 – 11:00 SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT (Session 3)
Chair: Walter WENZEL
09:30 – 09:50
Paul Bardos, r3, United Kingdom. Conceptual Site or Project Models for Sustainability Assessment
09:50 – 10:10
Pär-Erik Back, Swedish Geotechnical Institute. Principles and considerations for multicriteria analysis in sustainable remediation
10:10 – 10:30
Lars Rosen, Chalmers University, Sweden. SCORE: Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) for sustainability appraisal of remedial alternatives
10:30 – 10:50
Robert Noël-de-Tilly, Golder Associés Ltée, Canada. A Sustainability Decision Support Tool for Site Remediation in Canada
10:50 – 11:00
Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / Tea & Poster Session
11:30 – 13:00 SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT (Session 4)
Chair: Mengfang CHEN
11:30 – 11:50
Dirk Paulus, TAUW, Belgium. Improved Multi-criteria Analysis in Remediation Plans in Flanders: Quantifying Sustainability by introduction of the CO2-footprint
11:50 – 12:10
Moritz Ortmann, Kommunalkredit Public Consulting, Austria. Integrating sustainability into effectiveness assessment – Austria’s new MCEA-Tool
12:10 – 12:30
Sebastian Schädler, University Tübingen, Germany. Targeted Design and Integrated Evaluation of Land Use Alternatives for Sustainable Brownfield Redevelopment
12:30 – 12:50
Hans Slenders, Arcadis, The Netherlands. DOG, a methodology for making sustainable decisions in dealing with large scale contaminated groundwater
12:50 – 13:00
Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (morning workshop sessions) GREENLAND: Workshop on gentle soil remediation technologies (Part 1) Topic
Speaker/Discussion leader
9:30
Greenland: Evaluating the efficiency of gentle soil Markus Puschenreiter remediation technologies based on long-term field (GREENLAND) experiments
9:50
The PHYTOPOP experience: biomass production Michel Chalot (PHYTOPOP) and valorization on ETM contaminated soils
10:10
Use of mycorrhizal fungi in phytoremediation: virtual Libor Mrnka (EPTOCOL) or real issue?
10:30
Chemically-enhanced form of phytostabilisation
10:50
General discussion
Valerie Bert (BIOFILTREE) Puschenreiter/Chalot
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / Tea & Poster Session
GREENLAND: Workshop on gentle soil remediation technologies (Part 2) 11:30
Risk assessment on marginal, contaminated, land.
Marlea Wagelmans (REJUVENATE II)
11:50
Efficiency of soil amendments in stabilization of metal-polluted soils
Wolfgang Friesl-Hanl (GREENLAND)
12:10
Wider benefits (services) from brownfield sites
Pierre Menger (HOMBRE)
remediation ‑ a holistic approach 12:30
General discussion
Puschenreiter/Chalot
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (morning workshop sessions) SuRFing the globe Topic
Speaker/Discussion leader
9:30
Setting the scene – Sustainable Remediation Fora Nicola Harris all around the globe
9:45
Case study – SuRF A
tbd
10:00
Case study – SuRF B
tbd
10:15
Case study – SuRF C
tbd
10:30
General discussion
tbd
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / Tea & Poster Session
NICOLE – showcasing the Roadmap and Best practices 11:30
The general approach to sustainable remediation
Sarah MacKay / Lucy Witshire
11:45
Case studies
Alan Thomas (ERM) Rick Parkman (URS) Matthew Pannett (Environ) Richard Lewis (WSP)
12:30
General discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (afternoon plenary sessions)
14:00 – 15:50 SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT (Session 5)
Chair: Nicola Harris
14:00 – 14:20
Alan Thomas, ERM Oxford, United Kingdom. Embedding sustainability in contaminated site management – experiences and case studies
14:20 – 14:40
Ilisa Tawney, Geosyntec Consultants, USA. Reducing Environmental Impact through Biological In Situ Enhanced reductive Dechlorination via Closed-Loop Groundwater Circulation at a German Site
14:40 – 15:00
Ian Ross, FMC Environmental Solutions, United Kingdom. Innovative and Sustainable Remediation of Carbon Disulfide using In Situ Chemical Oxidation with Activated Persulfat
15:00 – 15:20
Anil Waduge, Arcadis, United Kingdom. Sustainable Remediation of a Manufacturing Facility Impacted by Chlorinated Solvents – Pilot Trial
15:20 – 15:30
Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee / Tea & Poster Session
16:00 – 17:30 SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT (Session 6)
Chair: Harald KASAMAS
16:00 – 16:20
Tobias Praamstra (TAUW), Ted Vendrig (HMVT), Johan von Leeuwen (SBNS): The Netherlands. Green engineering of soil remediation in Bilthoven
16:20 - 16:40
James Baldock, ERM, United Kingdom. Carbon Footprint Assessment of a Large Scale In-situ Thermal Treatment project performed at a Chlorinated Solvent site in the UK
16:40 – 17:00
Gitte Lemming, Technical University of Denmark. Environmental Optimisation of in situ thermal remediation using life cycle assessment (LCA)
17:00 – 17:20
Michael Moore, Rochdale MBC, United Kingdom. The remediation of the former Boo Hole Landfill, Rochdale, UK; a case study of a successful sustainable remediation project
17:20 – 17:30
Discussion
17:30
BUS TRANSPORT BACK TO VIENNA 20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Thursday, 15 November 2012 (afternoon workshop sessions)
US EPA Seminar: Green Remediation – Reducing the Environmental Footprints of Clean-Up Topic 14:00
Speaker / Discussion leader
Introduction to Rejuvenate II
Carlos Pachon
REJUVENATE: Producing Biomass on Brownfields – Selection of Most Suitable Approaches (Part 1) Topic
Speaker / Discussion leader
14:00
Introduction to Rejuvenate II
Yvonne Andersson-Sköld
14:15
Introduction to Rejuvenate DST
Paul Bardos
14:30
Introduction to Romanian cases study site
George Crutu, Thomas Track
14:45
Workshop exercise (part 1): applying the DST to the Romanian case study site
Thomas Track; Paul Bardos
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee / Tea & Poster Session
REJUVENATE: Producing Biomass on Brownfields – Selection of Most Suitable Approaches (Part 2) Duration 16:00
16:45
17:30
Topic
Speaker / Discussion leader
Workshop exercise (part 2): applying the DST to the Romanian case study site Discussion of WS results
Thomas Track; Paul Bardos
Yvonne Andersson-Sköld
BUS TRANSPORT BACK TO VIENNA
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Friday, 16 November 2012 (morning sessions) 09:00 – 10:30 SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT (Session 7)
Chair: Paul BARDOS
09:00 – 09:20
Heather Hilchey, Arcadis, USA. From Misery to Electric Energy: A Brownfield’s Success Story
09:20 – 09:40
Janusz Krupanek, IETU, Poland. Tailored and integrated approach to redevelopment of degraded megasites – case study of a post-military site
09:40 – 10:00
Rik Lantz, Sullivan International Group, USA. Sustainable Reuse of Contaminated Groundwater: Experiences in Southern CA
10:00 – 10:20
Andrea Barbanti, InTeA srl, Italy. The Urban Park of the Certosa Island (Venice): reducing the environmental footprint of soil remediation and island redevelopment
10:20 – 10:30
Discussion
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea
11:00 – 12:30 SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT (Session 8) Chair: Dominique DARMENDRAIL 11:00 – 11:20
Griet van Gestel, OVAM, Belgium. Combining groundwater energy with remediation in Flanders: policy and practice
11:20 – 11:40
Jenny Norrman, Chalmers University, Sweden. Evaluating Social Effects in Sustainability Appraisal of Remediation Alternatives
11:40 – 12:00
Alistair Beames, VITO, Belgium. Accounting for Social Aspects in Sustainable Brownfield Revitalisation: a review of current Decision Support Tools
12:00 – 12:20
Malin Norin, NCC Construction, Sweden. Assessment of economic project risks in remediation of contaminated land
12:20 – 12:30
Discussion
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
Friday, 16 November 2012 (closing session) 13:30 – 15:15
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION:
"Green vs Sustainable - Opposing or Complimentary Perspectives on Remediation" Moderators: Klaus Weber (NIRAS, Denmark), Carlos Pachon (US EPA)
Panelists:
Affiliation
Dominique Darmendrail
Common Forum on Contaminated Land in Europe
Mengfang Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Karin Holland
SuRF US
Bruce Kennedy
SuRF ANZ (Australia & New Zealand)
Hans Slenders
NICOLE, SuRF Netherlands
Jonathan Smith
SuRF UK
KEY QUESTIONS 1. Are sustainability management and risk management in conflict? 2. Can the environmental footprint of remediation projects be reduced? 3. Will sustainability be widely accepted as a tool in remediation decision making? 4. How closely are sustainable remediation and regeneration related?
15:15 – 15:30
15:30
“The way onwards”
End of the Conference
CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY RESPECTING COMMON RESPONSIBILITIES GLOBALLY, UNDERSTANDING NATURAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS REGIONALLY, MAKING IT WORK LOCALLY
