Remediation - Capability

Impartial Solutions Provider

I & H Brown’s approach to cost-efficient, sustainable brownfield solutions is to deliver the widest possible range of remediation technologies. Our policy is to maximise our in-house capability to deliver robust ‘standard’ solutions, but to bring in strategic partners to implement more specialist techniques.

We need no assistance to carry out, for example, ex-situ bioremediation. Alternatively, in partnership with specialists, we have addressed contaminated sites through techniques such as stabilisation/solidification, soil washing, thermal desorption and permeable reactive barriers. Indeed, we brought the first commercial use of the latter techniques to Scotland. Our award-winning project at Dundee gasworks introduced the first implementation in the UK of the Cluster Site principle. Continuing on the theme of innovation, we were the first contractor in the UK to use sea vessels to transport hazardous material to landfill.

Our approach offers maximum flexibility when assessing the best remediation strategy for any contaminated site. We also have a thorough understanding of the strengths and challenges associated with specialist technologies and we know exactly what has to be done by a main contractor to ensure that the chosen techniques will succeed.

We see continual benefits from our investment in a skilled, empowered and motivated remediation team with a strong professional pride. In addition to a comprehensive range of excavators, dump trucks and wheeled tippers, our extensive plant fleet includes specialist crushing, screening, grading and water treatment plant.

We have a network of partners who we believe have the right cultural fit and share our views on the importance of adopting a team approach to the clean up of contaminated land. We welcome opportunities to become involved with our clients and their designers from the earliest stages of a potential project.

We are equally comfortable with delivering design and construct solutions on large and small sites. Indeed our single largest remediation project to date, worth £5.3 million, saw us take all risk associated with ground conditions and contamination. At the ‘domestic’ end of the scale, we have amassed considerable expertise in working within the gardens of residential properties.