Successful new remediation technologies must be supported by a strong marketing and demonstration campaign in order to gain wider user acceptability.

Waste legislation and landfill costs are key criteria for the selection and development of remediation solutions and technologies. Life cycle assessment and cost benefit analysis of the technologies is an essential step in the remedial planning process.

Effective communication between the technical, financing and marketing sector as well as to politicians and the public requires well structured and concise information about the project on a few pages. The brownfield start up plan defines a format for such information, which easy to handle and can be continuously updated by the project manager.