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