Integrated webbased tool
Work Package 6: Web based tool for integrated planning and assessment of revitalisation options for brownfields
WP6 will develop a web-based tool for integrated planning and assessment of revitalisation options for brownfields. Comprising diverse models and methods (‘modules’) that operate on a coherent data base, the tool will allow end-users to tailor it with respect to the requirements and boundary conditions given at their site (in their region or country).
The tool is intended to improve available support to projects in the screening stage of revitalisation projects where possibilities with regard to future site use need to be explored, holistically evaluated and communicated.
The tool will be linked to the database of the expert system (see WP1) and to the output of the prioritization tool (see WP3). Furthermore, it will integrate new modules for risk assessment and a site potential estimator for (interim) use as energy crops plantation.
The capability of the tool will be demonstrated at timbre model sites. Results will be made available on the timbre online platform and will serve as model projects for the entire process of integrated planning and assessment of revitalisation options: from data collection and pre-processing to the management of input data to the planning of re-use options to the integrated multi-criteria assessment.
Contact: Michael Finkel michael.finkel@uni-tuebingen.de
Site Assessment Tool
TIMBRE web based site assessment and re-use planning tool (SAT)
The TIMBRE web based site assessment and re-use planning tool (SAT) is intended to serve the purpose of initiating and fostering communication among stakeholders with respect to (i) the joint design of brownfield reuse options, and (ii) the evaluation of the consequences of these options with respect to criteria such as remediation costs, sustainability, market values, etc.
The tool is specifically designed for use by interested stakeholders including non-experts, i.e. laypeople. By providing “light” versions of diverse existing expert desktop software programs for planning and assessment, the tool offers a wider group of users the utilization of these software programs via the internet. The capabilities of the web based “light” versions are limited as compared to the desktop versions in the sense that only a subset of input parameters is changeable by the user, i.e. those kinds of parameters that can reasonably be specified by non-experts. The web based version, therefore, has limited capabilities in terms of interactive data handling by end users, but has full assessment and modelling features and works on the full data set used by the expert version. The structure of the web tool and implemented modules is illustrated in Figure 1. It is distinguished between
- site-specific assessment modules that evaluate the situation/conditions at a site with respect to a particular aspect (e.g. bioenergy potential) in general (for the site but not specific to a certain re-use option), and
- option-specific assessment modules that evaluate the situation/conditions at a site with respect to a particular aspect and a particular re-use option (e.g. estimation of costs for remediation required to implement the re-use option)
Additions to the tool can be made with respect to both types of assessment modules.
A map showing the marketvalue of the Krampnitz site can be found here.
An detailes overview on the tabs and sub-tabs of the project is available for download here.
Technical workshop in Tuebingen, 05/2012
A technical workshop for the web tool development tasks has been held in Tuebingen Germany, 7-8 May, 2012. Attendees from Timbre partners from Romania (Technical University of Bucharest), Italy (Ca'Foscari University of Venice), Denmark (Danish Technical University) and Germany (JenaGeos and University of Tuebingen) discussed the technical framework and concretised tasks and division of work for next Milestones.
