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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CIRIA has announced A two-day SAFEGROUNDS with SD:SPUR conference sponsored by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the British Nuclear Group, Managing contaminated land and decommissioning wastes on nuclear and defence sites – changing culture and practice will examine benefits of building stakeholders relationships, effective supply chains and cultures of good practice through a series of presentations, workshop sessions and discussions.
Richard Waite of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority will open the conference with a keynote address on the scale of the challenges facing sites. Other features include a conference dinner where Professor Gordon MacKerron of CORWM will deliver a talk on the long-term benefits of building stakeholder relationships.
Delegates will be able to attend a number of participative workshops including: the latest waste management experience from Sellafield and Dounreay; communicating technical information to non-technical people; and good practice tools for waste management. Attendees will also find out more about the continuing work of the SAFEGROUNDS and SD:SPUR Learning Networks.
This conference is relevant to: consultants, MoD, regulators, community-based organisations, contractors, trade unions, technology and service vendors, local authorities, government (including policy-makers and NDA) and non-government organisations.
Managing contaminated land and decommissioning wastes on nuclear and defence sites – changing culture and practice will take place on 12-13 March 2007 at the Millennium Hotel Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, London. For further information or to register to attend, visit www.ciria.org/conferences.htm or contact CIRIA, Classic House, 174 - 180 Old Street, London EC1V 9BP. (T) 020 7549 3300; (F) 020 7253 0523; (E) enquiries@ciria.org.
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If you require a press pass for this event, or would like further information about the conference, contact James Milne at the above postal address or email: press@ciria.org
For full details of the conference, visit www.ciria.org/conferences_130307.htm.
“SAFEGROUNDS” stands for SAFety and Environmental Guidance for the Remediation of UK Nuclear and Defence Sites.
The origins of the network go back to 1998 when greater openness was emerging in the nuclear sector and industry committees were discussing the difficulties of estimating and managing the liabilities posed by contaminated land on nuclear sites. They identified the need for guidance – and CIRIA was invited to share its long experience of developing consensus-based guidance production.
Visit www.safegrounds.com for further information
“SD:SPUR” stands for Site Decommissioning: Sustainable Practices in the Use of Resources. The initiative was developed to establish through dialogue safe, socially, economically and environmentally sustainable practices in the use of resources arising from the decommissioning of nuclear sites.
Visit www.sdspur.com for further information
CIRIA is a member-owned organisation that works with the construction industry, government and academia to provide performance improvement products and services in the construction and related industries.
It was founded in 1960 and currently engages with around 700 subscribing organisations. Activities include collaborative projects, networking, publishing, workshops, seminars and conferences. About 40 projects are run at any one time, about 100 events are staged every year, and 25 books published per annum.