LAND QUALITY AND REGENERATION

Land Quality & Regeneration

Sustainable Development and Brownfield Site Regeneration

We offer a fully integrated geotechnical and environmental consultancy, providing a wide range of services from initial feasibility studies and investigations to the design, management, supervision and validation of remediation projects. With expertise in a range of disciplines, our geo-environmental staff work together to assess the natural and anthropogenic issues relating to site conditions within the context of a proposed or existing development.

Contaminated Land Consultants

With over 20 years in the contained land sector, ByrneLooby has extensive experience in providing practical solutions to our client’s brownfield site issues. Developers of brownfield sites across the UK face the challenges of an industrial legacy and our aim is to adopt a collaborative approach with clients to understand the feasibility, opportunities and constraints in relation to the regeneration of a brownfield site. Contaminated Land is a field with strict legislative standards and we assist with initial site appraisals to master planning to optimise land value and discharging planning conditions.

Advice Across all Stages of Brownfield site projects

Our technical advice, risk assessment and appropriate mitigation can help you find a cost-effective and safe solution that meets statutory requirements. We assist developers to resolve the contamination issues that increase risks and add uncertainty to programme, costs and schedules. Our teams have delivered services at every stage of contaminated land management from initial due diligence and desk study through to investigation, risk assessment, remediation and postcompletion monitoring. Our team understands the regulatory frameworks surrounding contaminated land and land quality issues in different jurisdictions. We take a pro-active approach working with regulators to achieve solutions that satisfy legal requirements while minimising delays to development projects.

Our consultants are adept in the preparation and completion of Conceptual Site Models (CSMs), undertaking environmental risk assessments following the source, pathway, receptor model and developing remedial options. With an excellent working knowledge of the planning regime and contaminated land legislation, our team are able to provide guidance and support to clients through all aspects of development from the pre-planning stage through to the discharge of planning conditions. Large and Small Brownfield Projects

Our consultants have a wide range of experiences from small scale residential developments through to large-scale commercial and industrial projects. In partnership with experienced contractors, we deliver a fully coordinated ground investigation, remediation or earthworks programme to comply with regulatory requirements in both the planning and legislative frameworks. When you work with ByrneLooby, we combine our geo-environmental, geotechnical, environmental and structural engineering services to deliver an integrated cost-effective approach with a lens on sustainability.

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PROJECT FOCUS: CLEANING THE PAST TO BUILD THE PRESENT - VALUE ENGINEERING ON CONTAMINATED LAND AT DUBLIN’S DOCKLANDS

The Sorting Office, Cardiff Lane

OVERVIEW

The Sorting Office is located in Dublin’s North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone, a regenerated city quarter which is home to a number of international technology companies such as Facebook and Google.

The development - being undertaken by Marlet Property Group - includes the construction of 56 residential units, 12,000 sq ft of retail space and 202,000 sq ft of office space across 7 storeys plus a basement.

OUR ROLE

The Sorting Office development site was considerably contaminated due to former uses of the dock area. The design solution, detailed by the engineer, involved the installation of a 1m wide diaphragm cut off wall to attenuate the contamination on site in order to prevent migration off site, potentially negatively impacting the nearby River Liffey.

ByrneLooby value engineered a bespoke design solution to reduce the construction programme and costs of constructing the cut off wall, detailing a cement-bentonite cut off wall which could be constructed using standard CFA piling techniques in a secant arrangement. Detailed testing and compliance inspections ensured the scheme was completed to the highest standards, with the required permeability and depths achieved to ensure the contamination is attenuated on site over the design life of the scheme. Location: Dublin Capital Value: €158m Project Name: The Sorting Office, Cardiff Lane Country: Ireland Client: PJ Edwards and Co. Ltd.

PROJECT FOCUS: FROM CONTAMINATED LAND TO A FRESH-WATER LAGOON IN SNOWDONIA

ADVENTURE PARC SNOWDONIA

OVERVIEW

The centrepiece of the Adventure Parc is the Surf Snowdonia fresh water lagoon, in which artificial surf is generated. It is roughly the size of six football pitches, set in the Conwy Valley, North Wales and features a two-metre high barrelling wave that peels perfectly for more than 150 meters. The Adventure Parc also features a range of other facilities including glamping pods, a restaurant and various other indoor and outdoor leisure activities.

OUR ROLE

Conwy Adventure Leisure Ltd. (CAL) and their contractors, (D Morgan) built the Surf Snowdonia facility on a former Industrial site – an aluminium rolling and casting works which closed in 2007.

Before they set to work, it was a derelict, contaminated, brownfield wasteland with little prospect for development. ByrneLooby undertook extensive site investigations, undertook the contaminated land assessment and made recommendations for the cleanup and redevelopment of the site. Location: Snowdonia Capital Value: £12m Project Name: Adventure Parc Snowdonia Country: UK Client: D Morgan plc / Conwy Adventure Leisure Ltd