The sustainable management and reuse of soils on construction sites is a fundamental part of the environmental performance of a project, not to mention its commercial and programme viability. However, this is becoming more and more challenging in the current regulatory climate, with a push away from tried and tested methods towards cumbersome and ill-suited procedures. Come and listen to how one Technical Director has battled with this issue for almost 30 years, and is still battling with it to this very day.

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Our speakers

Andy O'Dea, Technical Director, Cognition Land and Water     

Andy O'Dea is Technical Director at Cognition Land and Water, a top ten UK specialist Contamination Remediation and Ground Engineering contractor. With almost 30 years’ experience as a project manager/director, geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineer in sustainable land development and infrastructure projects, Andy has helped deliver many specialist geoenvironmental and geotechnical projects and large and complicated multidisciplinary land development projects.  

He likes cycling, travelling the world with his family and taking his cockapoo, Honey, on long country walks.