Exploratory study Remediation of contaminated sites

Purpose and goal

An important part of the authorities SGU, SGI and NV´s work is to promote the healthy development of polluted areas. This project aims to identify areas where procurement of innovation can bring that work forward. In the project ´Procurement of Innovation´, we show other players, such as regulatory agencies and private operators, working on issues related to contaminated areas that we want to promote the development and innovation. We have, through the use of workshops with invited experts demonstrated that we want to develop and renew efforts concerning contaminated areas.

Results and expected effects

We have come up with a couple of important conclusions and results which will be crucial for further work and implementation of procurement of innovation in contaminated areas. 1 We need sites for pilottest of new technology. 2 Contaminated sediments are a focus area where there is potential for procuring innovations. This because of that the problem is extensive and includes technical challenges. 3 We have also identified a need for innovations that enable alternative to excavation and disposal of soil and sediments that are contaminated with dioxins.

Approach and implementation

This work was conducted with a number of workshops, in some outside experts have participated. The work has brought authorities closer together and we also easier see opportunities where we can work together to influence development in our field. We find, moreover, that we got very good feedback from the experts, that we used in a few workshops, and that they will also help to spread the desire to develop and test new techniques and approaches. The implementation of the feasibility study has taken less working space than we had predicted, we believe that the arrangement contributed to it.