Common materials left behind at brownfield sites include petroleum products, heavy metals, solvents, pesticides, and other hazardous substances. These materials can pose risks to human health and the environment if not properly managed and remediated.
Brownfield sites are sites which have been built on before, such as Bluewater Shopping centre was built on a brownfield site, since the site used to be a chalk quarry.
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A Brownfield site is an area where an industrial or commercial area used to be and is no longer in use. Brownfield land is not ideal land to reuse because of possible environmental complications.
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Brownfield can mean a site of former occupation by either industrial units or housing. Which means there might be stuff like uncleared foundations, cavities, buried industrial or human waste, some of very hazardous and very expensive even impossible to clear out.
A "brownfield site" is one that has previously been built on (including ex-industrial sites). They are targeted by the UK government for new building rather than building on fresh countryside ("greenfield sites").
The Oxford Dictionary site gives "brownfield" as the opposite of "greenfield", logically enough ...
S. Minshull has written: 'Brownfield site redevelopment and the implications for the project manager'
Brownfield sites are usually to be found in a town's or city's industrial zone, where abandoned commercial buildings or factories may have left high levels of subsurface pollutants such as asbestos, hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, or heavy metals like lead. However(!) older residential neighborhoods may have deserted strip malls, dry-cleaning establishments, or gas stations that have left their effect. Old maps could be your best clue to finding out where these kinds of contaminants might be located.
There are a few ways materials may be stored while on a construction site. They may be in boxes, or in the structure that is being built. The materials may also be delivered everyday, and may be left on the trucks that deliver them.
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