On Thursday 28th January 2009 at an awards ceremony held at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London, Terra Vac (UK) Ltd received the prestigious Rushlight Land Environment Award for its work with Six Phase Heating (Electric Resistive Heating). Electric Resistive Heating (Six Phase Heating) is perhaps the most innovative, effective and exciting contaminated land remediation technology available today.

Terra Vac (UK) Ltd was the first company in the UK to apply this technology when they were appointed to remediate chlorinated solvent contamination at the site of a former tool manufacturing company in Ecclesfield, Sheffield. In achieving a successful outcome, Terra Vac (UK) Ltd has demonstrated that difficult soil and severe contaminant conditions should not be a barrier to effective, thorough and rapid in-situ remediation.

The use of Six Phase Heating in such a challenging environment means that former industrial sites, previously discounted for remediation because of geology, local environment, stringent remediation targets etc, can now be revisited and reassessed for redevelopment.

The RSA-accredited Rushlight Awards are a celebration and a promotion of new technology, innovation and best practice across the whole environment spectrum for organisations throughout UK and Ireland. Designed to highlight innovation and the holistic environmental benefit of technologies that are most likely to or are already creating a stir in the market, they are a means of disseminating the successes to support further development.

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