Thursday December 5, 2024
08:30
Attendee’s welcoming
09:15
Welcome speech
Saïd El Fadili, Head of the Soils sub-division - Brussels Environment
09:30
European Vision
Bavo Peeters, Policy officer Soil protection & Sustainable Land use -
European Commission
10:00
Flemish Region
Martien Swerts, Soil and Environment Team manager - Environment Departement & Johan Ceenaeme, Senior Soil expert and Policy coordinator - Soil management department - Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM)
10:30
Wallonia Region
Esther Goidts, Senior advisor & Michel Amand, Director - Public Service of Wallonia (SPW), Agriculture Natural resources & Environment
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Brussels-Capital Region
Good Soil Strategy: How to make Brussels soils healthy by 2050?
Wouter François, Head of department - Bruxelles Environnement
12:00
Discussions - “Soil health” panel
Moderator: Bernard Deltour, Partner - Industrious Law Firm
13h00
Lunch
How to objectify the notion of soil health?
14:00
IQSB – How to develop the Brussels territory taking into account the quality of
the soil and its ecosystem services?
Lydie Sombré, Project Manager & François Henry, Project Manager - Brussels Environment (Belgium)
14:20
WSQI: a tool for objectifying soil ecosystem services
Clélia Van de Casteele, Soil Studies Manager - ARIES Consultants (Belgium)
14:40
How to integrate soils into territorial strategies?
• Cécile Grand, Project Manager - French Agency for Ecological Transition, ADEME
(France)
• Florence Baptist, Director - Soltis Environment (France)
15:00
The complexity of evaluating soil health and a discussion on good soil
management practices
Julie Estival, Agro environment Project Manager - Tauw Group (France)
15:20
Coffee break
How to achieve zero net land artificialization?
15:50
Zero net artificialization and the challenge of reindustrialisation
Juliette Sohm Collaboratrice, Avocate au Barreau de Paris, Environnement &
Développement Durable - Osborne Clarke (France)
16:10
Evaluate the ecological quality of soils for sustainable land development
Battle Karimi, Scientific Director - Novasol Experts (France)
16:30
Ecological rehabilitation of polluted wastelands: development of an operational
tool for assessing the functions of urban soils at the scale of development project
Xavier Marié, Company Manager - Sol Paysage (France)
16:50
A cartographic tool to optimize and sustainably manage urban wastelands
Holder of the UsinoVerT Chair in Factories & Territories, Teacher-Researcher in geography and environmental analysis - UniLaSalle Polytechnic Institute, Rouen (France)
17:10
Questions/Answers & conclusions
17:30
End of day 1
Friday December 6, 2024
08:30
Attendee’s welcoming
How to apply circular economy principles to soils?
09:15
Method of analysis and forecasting for sustainable land management excavated in
the territory of the Metropolis of Lyon
Julie Paciello, Research Manager Resource Management - Cerema (France)
09:35
Development of a new urban district on the industrial wasteland of the former
Dudelange Rolling Mill in Luxembourg
Emmanuelle Thiltges, Project Manager, Deputy Head of Department, Associate -
ENECO Ingénieurs-Conseils (Luxembourg)
09:55
New challenges and certain opportunities for the recovery of materials present
on polluted sites identified within the framework of Remind Wallonia
Claudia Neculau, Project Coordinator - Remind Wallonia (Belgium)
10:15
Operational deployment of the principles of the circular economy to the management of excavated soil - Feedback from Grand Paris Express
Thomas Gaudron, Head of excavated land & circular economy - Société des
Grands Projets (France)
10:35
Contribution of different composts on soil functionalities and the fate of
organic pollutants
Papa Mamadou Sitor Ndour,
Post-doctoral student - Unit of Environmental Chemistry and Interactions on
Living Things (UCEIV), University of Littoral Côte d’Opale (France)
10:55
Coffee break
How to sustainably manage soil pollution?
11:25
Characterizing risks for ecosystems: a lever to boost the environmental uses of
wastelands
Benjamin Pauget, R&D Manager, Partner - Tesora (France)
11:45
A Sustainable Approach for the in-situ Treatment of Deep CHC Contaminants
Underlying a Manufacturing site in Germany using ZVI and Bio-augmentation
Gordon Bures, Remediation Engineer - Sensatec GmbH (Germany)
12:05
PFAS source zone stabilization: a zero-waste solution to a global problem
Kris Maerten, Technical Manager Europe - Regenesis (Belgique)
12:25
Questions/Answers
12:45
Lunch
13:45
In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) treatment by Fenton's reagents in the saturated and unsaturated zone of a heterogeneous, man-made geology using the SPIN® injection technology
Lionel Counet, Project Engineer - Injectis (Belgium)
14:05
A robust multi-approach data analysis to identify sources and extent of PFAS
impacts
Matar Thiombane, Senior Consultant - ERM (Belgium)
14:25
Innovative descriptive soil study on soils for complex PFAS contamination in
soil, groundwater and concrete at the training ground of the Flemish fire
brigade
Wim Vansina, Project Manager - Witteveen+Bos Belgium (Belgium)
14:45
Enhanced remediation of LNAPL-contaminated soils using alcohol-in-biopolymer
emulsions
Bexultan Sabyrbay, Researcher - French Geological and Mining Research Office,
BRGM (France)
15:05
Remediation of heterogeneous soils contaminated by PFAS: Optimization of
desorption using a solvent/bio-polymer mixture
Ali Batikh, PhD student - Colas Environnement (France)
15:25
Coffee break
15:55
Sustainable In-Situ Remediation of a CHC Plume for Expedited Brownfield
Redevelopment. A German Case Study
Michael Mueller, Business Manager, EMEA - Evonik Operations GmbH (Germany)
16:15
The use of selective Lewatit® ion exchange resins for the removal of emerging
contaminants: PFAS and beyond
Dirk Steinhilber, Manager Business development and applications - Lanxess (Germany)
16:35
Questions/Answers & conclusions
17:00
End of the congress