LQM.net (Staff only); Meet the team; Our Ts&Cs; Discussion Forum; Downloads
30th January 2012: In July 2010, LQM and CIEH held a workshop to analyse the toxicological reviews underpinning the development of the ‘new’ Environment Agency SGVs and the 2nd Edition LQM/CIEH GAC. In the absence of a quantitative definition of SPOSH, this tool will help local authorities and their advisors to determine whether SPOSH is likely to exist.
During 2011, we have been working to generate the LQM/CIEH Dose-Response Roadmaps from the workshop output and preparing them for release under a suitable licencing framework. After considerable efforts by our legal department we now have a licencing framework to release the Roadmaps for use by the wider comtaminated land community!
If you want to understand what SPOSH might look like please take a look as lqm.co.uk\roadmaps.
Learn MoreLand Quality Management Ltd are proud to report that our new offices, part of University of Nottingham Innovation Park, have been short listed in the final of the 2011 Lord Stafford Awards - which recognise the achievements of collaborative relationships between businesses and universities.
Land Quality Management have long been at the forefront of a collaborative relationship between University research and application to real world problems and are excited to now be part of a larger cluster of businesses linked with expertise within the University.
Learn MorePaul Nathanail has reviewed "Soil and Rock Description in Engineering Practice" by David Norbury. Click here to read the review and find out more details about this book
Learn More11th
November 2011: Paul Nathanail
will be
presenting a
seminar entitled "Brown is the new green! Why reusing brownfield sites
is the smart way to go under the new developer led Planning Process" at
the East Midlands Property & Business Investment Show.
The
event for potential inward and indigenous investors and decision-makers
will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on
the Friday 11th November
2011.
Learn
More
15th
September 2011: CL:AIRE have
published three
research bulletins written by LQM on developing assessment
criteria for coking works. The three bulletins are available free
on the CL:AIRE website via the
links below and may be of interest even to those not currently working on
coking
works or gasworks as our research has value to other sites where these
contaminants are an issue. RB14 - Generic Human Health
Assessment Criteria for
Arsenic at Former Coking Works Sites: 8th
September 2011:
Richard
Ogden presented a paper
outlining the ongoing issues relating to the definintion of significant
possibility of significant harm (SPOSH)under the Part 2A regime in
Scotland. The presentation then described the potential benefits to
Scottish Local authorities in using the recently released LQM/CIEH Dose
Response Intake
Roadmaps to assist in identifying sites where SPOSH exists.
For
further details about the Roadmaps please click here. 6th
July 2011:
Paul
Nathanail will be presenting
“Spotting SPOSH: The LQM/CIEH Dose Response
Roadmaps”
at the joint summer meeting of the North East and Yorkshire
Contaminated Land Fora and North West Brownfield Regeneration Forum at
Teeside University on the 6th July 2011. Paul will be explaining how
the new LQM/CIEH Dose Response Roadpmaps can be used to inform
decisions about significant possibility of significant harm and how
local authorities and their advisors can obtain a license and become
competent in their use. For further details about the Roadmaps please click here. 15
and 16 June 2011:
Judith
Nathanail is speaking at this years Brownfield Briefing
Conference on Site Investigation to be held on 15 and 16 June 2011.
This year the conference is about techniques for more Cost-Effective
Site Investigations. Judith's talk is entitled "Developing an accurate
and workable Conceptual Site Model". Brownfield Briefing talked to
people working in the industry to find out what practitioners wanted to
know more about in relation to Conceptual Site Model's. Topics included
Judith will address
these and other issues in her usual entertaining and informative style
drawing on examples from her recent experience. If you can't come to
the conference come back here soon to see the overheads - although they
are no substitute for hearing the talk "in the flesh". Judith's overheads can now
be
downloaded here April 2011:
Our
5-day series of introductory courses started at the begining of March
and so far delegates are telling us that they are finding them useful
and enjoyable! But there are plenty of courses left to run before
June and there are some places left on most
of them. So
why don't you have a look at the up coming titles on our training page
and see if you think any of them would help you in your role
as a contaminated land risk assessor. 9-11th
March 2011:Paul
Nathanail delivered two keynote presentations at the 2011 Australian
Land and Groundwater Association (ALGA) annual conference held as part
of the Ecoforum in Sydney. Click the button above to read the
abstracts for his lectures.
23rd
November 2010:
Paul
Nathanail convened a meeting for the Engineering
Group of the Geological Society to discuss the Part 2A contaminated
land
regime. Defra's Tom Cole gave an update on current thinking
and Paul gave
a summary of the UK history of contaminated land management
27th
October 2010:Paul Nathanail was
invited to address the 2010 Taipei International Conference on the
Investigation, Remediation and Management of Soil and Groundwater
Contaminated Sites. The Conference celebrated teh 10th
anniversary of Taiwan's Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act
(SGPRA)
21st
October 2010:
The
Land Quality – The
Essential Update 2010 Conference hosted by Environemntal
Protection UK at Aston
University included a presentation by Paul
Nathanail discussing the current status of skills, competencies and
accreditation within the contaminated land assessment and management
community. 6th
October 2010:
Paul
Nathanail presented a paper at Brownfield
Briefing's annual Brownfield
Risk Assessment Conference in London examining what SPOSH might and
might not look like for local authorities considering determination
under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. October 2010:
Our
5-day series of introductory courses started at the begining of October
and so far delegates are telling us that they are finding them useful
and enjoyable! But there are plenty of courses left to run before
Christmas and there are some places left on most
of them. So
why don't you have a look at the up coming titles on our training page
and see if you think any of them would help you in your role
as a contaminated land risk assessor. August 2010:
LQM
have released details of their updated training programme for the
Autumn of 2010. The new programme includes all our usual
courses,
such as the 5-day "Introduction to Contaminated Land Management" series
and the ever popular "Introduction to chemistry for contaminated land",
but this year we have extended our range with several new courses. These
include a 1-day course looking at the status of lead risk assessment in
the UK, which has been the source of much debate after the withdrawal
of the 'old' SGV but an apparent lack of progress in producing
replacement guidance. The course is designed to sumarise the
issues and the considerations that a risk assessor should
include during a detailed quantitative assessment for lead,
including issues of bioavailability/bioaccessibility. We
have also added two courses that were presented by LQM as part of the
CIEH's EMAQ+ training scheme for local authorities during 2009.
These courses will now be available for anyone wanting to
know
what the regulators have been told about the "Use of bioavailability
estimates in human health risk assessment" and "Making
determinations under Part 2A". August
2010: LQM has launched a new
revamped website at www.lqm.co.uk. Managing Director, Paul Nathanail,
said “The old website was tired and looked very dated. It had
done sterling service for a long time but it was time for a fresh look
and a spring clean”.
The new website has been streamlined and much of the old content has
been removed to give a more compact and snappy feel. New sections
include “Meet the team” and a link to the
Contaminated-Land-Strategies discussion forum on JISCmail.
However, we are particularly proud of our new "Finding us" facility.
Its
nothing clever but it
should allow
clients and
course delegates to see exactly where our offices are and even
obtain personalised directions. Have a
look round! We hope you agree that it is now much easier to
find
what you need. However, we know that you probably have some
likes
and dislikes or perhaps there are things that you can't find anymore or
would like us to add. Why not let us know your feedback so we
can
improve the site. Please send your comments to the webmaster July 2010:
KeyCSM is a software package, developed as a collaboration between LQM
and Keynetix, which allows conceptual site models for contaminated
sites to be constructed quickly and easily, and then edited as the
investigation and remediation programme progresses adding or breaking
pollutant linkages. Version 2 has just been released which
introduces lots of great new features that users have requested and
fixes a few glitches from Version 1. Why
not take a
look? ©
Land Quality Management Ltd.
.
We try to keep our website up-to-date, please report errors to the webmasterLQM authors three CL:AIRE
Bulletins on Coking Works Assessment
Criteria for Arsenic, Benzene and Benzo(a)pyrene
This bulletin describes the development of generic human health
assessment criteria for arsenic at former coking works sites. Arsenic
is a common contaminant at former coke and coal tar processing works.
However, the assumptions and input parameters used to derive existing
Generic Assessment Criteria (GAC) may not reflect the conditions
normally found at former coking works and this may result in GAC that
under or over-estimate human exposure at such sites. This bulletin
considers the input parameters used to derive GACs for this contaminant
and considers their applicability to the conditions normally
encountered at former coking works. The authors have derived Coking
Works Assessment Criteria (CWAC) for the residential land use that may
better reflect the risks posed by this contaminant at such sites.
RB16 - Generic Human Health
Assessment Criteria for
Benzene at Former Coking Works Sites:
This bulletin describes the
development of generic human health assessment criteria for benzene at
former coking works sites. Benzene is a common contaminant at former
coke and coal tar processing works. However, the assumptions and input
parameters used to derive existing Generic Assessment Criteria (GAC)
may not reflect the conditions normally found at former coking works
and this may result in GAC that under or over-estimate human exposure
at such sites. This bulletin considers the input parameters used to
derive GACs for this contaminant and considers their applicability to
the conditions normally encountered at former coking works. The authors
have derived Coking Works Assessment Criteria (CWAC) for the
residential land use that may better reflect the risks posed by this
contaminant at such sites.
RB15 - Generic Human Health
Assessment Criteria for
Benzo-a-pyrene at Former Coking Works Sites:
This bulletin
describes the development of generic human health assessment criteria
for benzo-a-pyrene at former coking works sites. Benzo-a-pyrene is a
common contaminant at former coke and coal tar processing works.
However, the assumptions and input parameters used to derive existing
Generic Assessment Criteria (GAC) may not reflect the conditions
normally found at former coking works and this may result in GAC that
under or over-estimate human exposure at such sites. This bulletin
considers the input parameters used to derive GACs for these
contaminants and considers their applicability to the conditions
normally encountered at former coking works. The authors have derived
Coking Works Assessment Criteria (CWAC) for the residential land use
that may better reflect the risks posed by this contaminant at such
sites.
.LQM speak at the Scottish
Contaminated Land Forum Conference
LQM speak at the joint summer
meeting of the North East and
Yorkshire Contaminated Land Fora and North West Brownfield Regeneration
Forum
LQM speak at Brownfield
Briefing Conference on Site Investigation
Our Spring courses
have already started but there is still time to book if you
are quick!
Paul Nathanail speaks in
ALGA
EGGS discuss Part 2A
Paul Nathanail speaks in
Taiwan
Skills, competencies and
accreditation – where are we now?
Spotting SPOSH - when is a
lot, too much?
Our Autumn courses
have already started but there is still time to book if you
are quick!
LQM launch Autumn 2010
training
programme
LQM Launch Revamped
Website!
KeyCSM
Version 2 is released!
