Transforming brownfield sites into valuable assets requires a deep understanding of environmental risks and regulatory requirements. By addressing potential contaminants in soil and groundwater, THEM helps you navigate legal, financial, and environmental challenges, making your redevelopment projects both successful and sustainable.

Former industrial lands that are now vacant or underused are generally called Brownfield sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by actual or perceived environmental contamination. Brownfield sites may be contaminated due to past or present activities.

• closed factories
• gas stations
• waterfront lands formerly used for commercial port operations

Brownfield sites may pose risks to the environment and human health because of potential contaminants that may be found in the soil and groundwater as a result of past activities at the site. Now brownfield redevelopment has a greater importance in Ontario since new Ontario Regulation came in effect in 2004 and subsequent amendments happened very recently as July 1, 2011. Ontario is continually taking action to ensure that brownfield sites are properly redeveloped to meet environmental and health standards and, therefore, can be used for other purposes. A record of site condition (RSC) is a document that summarizes the environmental condition of a property, as certified by a “Qualified Person”, as of a particular date.

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