CL:AIRE works with its Members to raise awareness and pursue shared objectives in land, water and environmental management by collecting strategic industry information and developing industry initiatives that improve efficiency and save money.
CL:AIRE leads a national programme of technical and core-skills training initiatives that are guided by industry requirements, and produced in collaboration with key stakeholders and specialists.
The Definition of Waste Code of Practice (DoWCoP) provides a clear, consistent and efficient process which enables the reuse of excavated materials on-site or their movement between sites.
The National Quality Mark Scheme for Land Contamination Management (NQMS) is developed by the National Brownfield Forum to provide visible identification of documents that have been checked for quality.
Historic England has published a set of five reports on the manufactured gas industry. These reports provide an illustrated summary of the history of the gas industry and will be...
Ofwat (water regulator for England and Wales) has established a £200 million Innovation Fund to grow the water sector’s capacity to innovate, enabling it to better meet the evolving needs...
CL:AIRE launched the Gas Protection Verification Accreditation Scheme (GPVS) on the 7 January 2021. Working closely with industry, this scheme seeks to raise standards in gas membrane inspection, verification...
A new draft British/International Standard ISO CD 24212 Remediation techniques applied at contaminated sites has been published for comment. All comments are to be received by BSI by 1 February 2021...
ISO CD 18400-301: Soil quality – Sampling for volatiles and on site semi-quantitative determination in field investigations, has been published for comment, with all comments to be received by BSI by 1...
Sustainable Remediation Forum (SuRF) International which has representation from across the globe, met on 11 November 2020. They have recently published their meeting notes which can be download here . ...
AquaConSoil in 2021 – webinar series & focus week June 14–18, 2021
2021 will be a year full of AquaConSoil! Instead of a week-long conference, a series of webinars and other...
CL:AIRE is delighted to announce that its Technology and Research Group (TRG) has three new members - Ruth Chippendale from Shell, Liz Gray from Atkins and Karen Young from Jacobs UK...
The Rushlight Awards are in their 14th year, recognizing the cleantech stars and sustainability champions of today. They are the only independent set of awards designed specifically to support and...
Quality Protocols (QPs) are end of waste frameworks that are used by Industry on a voluntary basis to identify the point at which waste, having been fully recovered, may be regarded...
The Scottish Government is proposing changes to the legislation that regulates groundwater and has included them in a consultation, Protecting Scotland’s groundwater from pollution, published on the SEPA consultation...
QP Renewals
Qualified Persons for the CL:AIRE Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice (DoW CoP) are reminded that renewals will be due in January 2021 for that year.
Two years...
The first cohort of students onto Plymouth University's Environmental Geochemistry MSc programme started this year, building on the success of their existing post-graduate taught programmes in Environmental Consultancy and Sustainable Environmental Management.
A public consultation has opened on the draft publication "Technical Note - Good Practice for Risk Assessment for Mine Gas Emissions". This technical guide has been prepared by Steve Wilson,...
IMPEL the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (www.impel.eu), is seeking to understand more on the phasing of remediation of contaminated sites. This year the...
AGS has recently published an approach for classifying sites into green, yellow or red in relation to potential contamination hazards related to site investigation need to be subjected to a...
AGS has recently published updated guidance for intrusive investigations of contaminated sites. This version replaces the 2012 version of the same name. ...
RemSoc is evaluating the current continuous professional development provisions within the UK that is relevant to remediation practitioners. Further information about the survey and to access here. ...
CL:AIRE is seeking to appoint a Definition of Waste Code of Practice (DoW CoP) Standards Officer to be based in Reading. The role will initially be for 1 year as...
SuRF-UK has recently had a paper published in Remediation Journal titled"Sustainability assessment framework and indicators developed by SuRF‐UK for land remediation option appraisal" . This paper supports the recently...
The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (QJEGH) is calling for papers to be submitted to the ‘Sustainability in Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology’ thematic collection.