remediation costs

Is a fixed cost remediation scheme good value?

September 9, 2011

We are constantly being asked to provide a fixed cost for remediation schemes but is this good value for the client…? It is very normal for us mere remediation contractors to have had no involvement with the site investigation stage of a sites redevelopment.  For some reason our experience is not called upon until the client needs [...]

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Is this really the cost of soil remediation?

August 19, 2011

Following on from Sam’s recent blog on how much does soil remediation cost I thought you might be interested to see how a reporter on mortgage issues, clearly with limited knowledge, is managing to scare potential home owners from buying properties developed on brownfield sites.  It is stated that…”Some 3% of all properties in the [...]

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Develop a green belt or brownfield site…?

June 29, 2011

Clean or contaminated site…which would you choose…? With developers looking for asurity of budgets and the remediation cost percieved as being the big unknown what chance do contaminated sites have of being developed in the present economic market.   Well I reckon they have just a good a chance as green sites do…I would, I’m a remediation expert…!   [...]

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How cost effective was your site investigation…?

April 13, 2011

We recently blogged about “Getting the most out of your Remediation Contractor”. So it comes as no surprise to us that DEFRA have recently estimated that £210m per year is spent unnecessarily on remediation due to poor site investigation.  Where’s that Sherlock character when you need him…! It’s a given that all SI’s should collect [...]

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