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The Brownfield Risk Management Forum

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In recent years, over 10,000 hectares of contaminated land has been remediated in the UK. This will increase as London prepares for the 2012 Olympics.

Although the Olympics offers new opportunities to construction professionals and considerable experience has been gained in managing brownfield projects to date, there is still some scepticism within the construction sector about utilising previously developed sites. In general, brownfield sites still have lower commercial value than greenfield sites. This is in part due to technical, legal, and financial risks associated with previously used sites.

A number of networks have been set up to help construction professionals working on brownfield projects; none of these provide comprehensive and cross-sector support to all construction, environmental, financial and legal professionals. The Brownfield Risk Management Forum aims to fill this gap.

Aims

• Promote cross-sector communication and learning between the technical, financial and legal professionals involved in brownfield projects.
• Encourage sustainable and good practice in procurement of brownfield projects in UK.
• Improve the way that risk and liability are managed in brownfield projects.
• Reduce the perceived negative image associated with brownfield sites.

Why you should join

• To help you manage technical, legal and financial risk associated with brownfield sites.
• To help manage liability associated with brownfield sites more effectively.
• To be kept up-to-date with legislation and policy changes.
• Improve communication and gain a better understanding of how various different parties interact to deal with contaminated land in construction projects.

Benefits

Member benefits include:

• one delegate place for each BRMF workshop
• access to a BRMF members’ area on CIRIA’s contaminated land web
• a short organisation profile on the website
• two newsletters per annum
• discounted rates to other CIRIA contaminated land events.

Sponsoring Member benefits include:

• all the benefits of standard membership (as above)
• company logo on BRMF event flyers
• company logo on BRMF literature
• company logo on the forum section of the contaminated land web.

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