Final announcement - REVIT

organising committee
Thomas Zügel (Chair), REVIT Lead Partner, Municipality of
Stuttgart, Germany
Dr. Thomas Ertel, REVIT Coordination-Team, Consultant,
Germany
Dr. Uwe Ferber, CABERNET, Consultant, STADT+, Germany
Gritta Geffers, REVIT Lead Partner, Municipality of
Stuttgart, Germany
Programme committee
Detlef Grimski (Chair), Federal Environmental Agency,
Germany
Jean Audouin, Agence Innovapresse Paris, France
Peter Conradi, Architect, MdB 1972 - 1998, Germany
Dr. Fabian Dosch, Federal Office for Architecture
& Regional Planning, Germany
Dr. Uwe Ferber, Consultant, STADT+, Germany
Bertil Grundfelt, Managing Director Kemakta Konsult AG,
Sweden
Peter Morgan, Groundworks UK, United Kingdom
Dr. Paul Nathanail, University of Nottingham, United
Kingdom
Dr. Francesca Neonato, PN Studio Milano,
Italy
REFINA
The programme
“Research for the
reduction of land
consumption and for promoting sustainable
land management” funded
by the BMBF, the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research, is part of the
German National Strategy for Sustainable
Development. The German
Federal Government has set a goal of
reducing land consumption for settlement
and transport to 30 hectares
per day in 2020. In order to provide a
scientifically reliable basis for decisions
and measures, REFINA grants the
development and testing of innovative
concepts for the reduction of land
consumption to achieve a multitude
of goals such as e.g. protection of the
environment and nature, economical
growth, socially balanced housing, architectural
urban quality, and mobility.
organising & Programme committee
Detlef Grimski, CABERNET, Federal Environmental Agency,
Germany
Maike Hauschild, Project Management Juelich (PTJ), Germany
Gerard Jilleba, REVIT, Municipality of Hengelo, Netherlands
Dr. Kate Millar, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Dr. Paul Nathanail, CABERNET, University of Nottingham,
United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Nico S. Groenendijk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Euan Hall, Land Restoration Trust, United Kingdom
Maike Hauschild, Project Management Agency Juelich,
Germany (PTJ)
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Petrikova, University of Bratislava,
Slovak Republic
Dr. Anna Starzewska-Sikorska, Institute for Ecology of
Industrial Areas, Poland
Dr. Paul Syms, English Partnerships, United Kingdom
Dr. Derk van Ree, Stichting GeoDelft, Netherlands
Martin Schamann, Federal Environmental Agency Vienna,
Austria
Ann Vega, United States Environmental Protection Agency
(USEPA), USA
CABERNET is a European
multi-stakeholder expert network
– originally funded by the EC –
that is working to enhance the
rehabilitation of brownfield sites
within the context of sustainable
development of European cities.
CABERNET explores new management
strategies, innovative
tools and stimulates co-ordinated
research activities. CABERNET is
jointly organised by the University
of Nottingham and the Federal
Environment Agency.
Presented by
REVIT – In every country
and in almost every city of
Europe, there are brownfield
areas which need to be revitalised
in order to preserve
or improve the quality of urban living conditions.
The revitalisation of brownfield sites
may enhance coherent urban development,
but can also create new employment and
stimulate the local economy. Last but not
least, revitalising brownfields for a variety
of future uses preserves greenfield sites and
prevents the growing consumption of land.
Therefore REVIT strives to achieve a higher
acceptance and better image for revitalised
brownfield sites by testing their own
models and tools on the local project areas
of each partner and reporting best practice
examples in this context to other cities and
regions in Europe.