BALANCE 4P: Balancing decisions for urban brownfield regeneration – people, planet, profit and processes
Research Project, 2013
– 2015
Land take as a result of urbanization is one of the major soil threats in Europe. One of the key measures to prevent further urban sprawl and additional land take, is redevelopment of urban brownfields: underused urban areas with, in many cases, soil and groundwater pollution. A difficulty is that the responsibilities, tools and knowledge of subsurface engineering and urban planning and design are not integrated. The overall aim of BALANCE 4P is to deliver a holistic approach that supports sustainable urban renewal through the redevelopment of contaminated land and underused sites.
In order to reach the overall aim, the specific project objectives focus on different parts of the holistic approach:
1) application and assessment of methods for design of land redevelopment strategies for brownfields that embrace the case-specific opportunities and challenges;
2) development of a method for sustainability assessment of alternative land redevelopment strategies to evaluate and compare the ecological, economic and social impacts of land use change and remedial technologies; and
3) development of a practice for redevelopment of contaminated land in rules and regulations to enable implementations.
Participants
Jenny Norrman (contact)
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics
Rita Coelho Steiger Garção
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics
Jaan-Henrik Kain
Architecture
Lars Rosen
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics
Yevheniya Volchko
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Geology and Geotechnics
Collaborations
City of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
Deltares
Delft, Netherlands
Enveco Environmental Economics Consultancy
SKÄRHOLMEN, Sweden
Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Mol, Belgium
r3 Environmental Technology Ltd
Reading, United Kingdom
Funding
Formas
Project ID: 216-2013-1813
Funding Chalmers participation during 2013–2015
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Areas of Advance