Groundscreen Brownfield Risk Calculator

新冠肺炎对建筑和房地产行业造成了重大破坏，并对地方政府收入产生了重大财政影响。GoundScreen是一种基于云的数字规划工具，旨在在详细评估和开发场地之前识别和计算异常地面条件和清理成本。它的目的是推动在以前开发的土地上的开发，并消除与评估后工业化棕地土地的可行性相关的不确定性。地方当局、规划者、开发商和各种规模的买家将能够利用这一工具，在他们破坏项目之前了解问题，并根据需要确定土地处置和进一步行动的优先顺序和目标。该工具集成在地理信息系统(GIS)中，将能够提供从单一地点到大型英国土地持有组合的投入的相对风险评分和相关成本的定量评估。这些产出提供了对a)土壤和地下水污染以及b)土工(土壤、岩石和采矿)灾害的评估。它基于英国地质调查局(BGS)于2019年为选定的地方当局创建的地区性定制工具，国家项目是Goundure和BGS合作的结果。该工具将在以下领域有用：*土地所有者投资组合评估*由地方当局处置的棕地优先次序*开发商规划*个别场地级别的评估该工具不是为了取代必要的开发场地的环境风险评估，而是帮助以互补的方式确定场地的优先顺序和评估。它将减少不确定性，允许资源的有效分配，同时促进棕地的可持续再利用。鉴于英国政府的目标是优先考虑棕地，每年开发多达30万套新房，我们创造工具来打破“问题”土地利用的障碍是至关重要的。该工具使用英格兰和威尔士可用的公开数据集来计算其产出，因此它的部署不存在地区障碍。未能认识到异常地面条件的规模和成本很容易使开发脱轨，即使是在价值最高的项目中也是如此。该项目旨在确保土地回流到有益的用途，降低项目风险，并使土地再利用的“棕地优先”政策成为可能。

COVID-19 has resulted in the significant disruption to the construction and property sector, as well as having significant financial impacts on local authority revenues. Groundscreen is a cloud-based digital planning tool designed to identify and calculate abnormal ground conditions and clean-up costs prior to the detailed assessment and development of a site. It is intended to drive development on previously developed land and remove the uncertainties associated with assessing the viability of post-industrial brownfield land. Local authorities, planners, developers and purchasers of all sizes will be able to utilise this tool to have sight of issues before they derail a project, and to prioritise and target land disposal and further action as required.The tool is integrated within a Geographical Information System (GIS) and will be able to deliver relative risk scores and quantitative assessments of associated costs for inputs ranging from single sites to large UK-wide land holding portfolios. The outputs provide assessments of a) soil and groundwater contamination and b) geotechnical (soil, rock and mining) hazards. It is based on regional bespoke tools created by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for selected local authorities in 2019, and the national project is the result of collaboration between Groundsure and BGS.It is intended that the tool will be useful in the following areas* Landholder portfolio assessment* Prioritisation of brownfield land for disposal by local authorities* Developer planning* Individual site-level assessmentThis tool is not intended to replace the necessary environmental risk assessments of sites for development, but instead to help with the prioritisation and evaluation of sites in a complementary manner. It will reduce uncertainties and allow for efficient allocation of resources, whilst facilitating the sustainable reuse of brownfield land.Given the UK government's targets for prioritising brownfield land for the development of up to 300,000 new homes a year, it is vital that we create tools to break down the barriers to the utilisation of 'problematic' land. This tool uses publicly available datasets available for England and Wales to calculate its output, so there are no regional barriers to its deployment. The failure to appreciate the scale and cost of abnormal ground conditions can easily derail development even in the most high value projects. This project is intended to ensure the flow of land back into beneficial use, reducing project risk and enabling the 'brownfield first' policy for land reuse.