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What is an Eco‐Industrial Park?
An
Eco‐Industrial Park
is an industrial area that makes more effective,
efficient, and ecological use of resources.
This concept makes better use of land by
incorporating and repurposing existing
infrastructure and buildings. Energy can
be provided with the construction of modern and
efficient Waste-to-Energy or cogeneration
facilities,
which can provide both electricity and heat to
the Park. Water management could not only use an
existing supply but incorporate waste water
recycling. And
Materials used in its construction can use
recycled products to the maximum extent
possible. Since utilizing brownfield land
will be building where industry once was, local
people are provided a better quality of life,
without having to relocate.
Why Create an Eco-Industrial Park?
An
Eco-Industrial Park
creates a sustainable community with industry,
not in spite of it. With proper planning, and
with a contractor that understands the concept,
it can meet economic, social, and ecological
objectives. Since the goal of an Eco-Industrial
Park is to reuse existing buildings it Maximizes
infrastructure investment. Ultimately this
Attracts new, progressive sectors and jobs. By
collocating compatible production and products
it uses synergies between all site
manufacturing. This in turn protects the
industrial tax base of the local community and
industrial capacity. The Eco-Industrial Park
can be designed to also provide additional
export focused manufacturing products using
recycled raw materials.
Eco-Industrial Parks & Brownfields
Paring
Eco-Industrial Parks & Brownfields is a link
between ecological restoration &
ecologically-minded design. Friches
industrielles redevelopment by utilizing
existing brownfields reclaims what otherwise
would be useless land. The redeveloped property
becomes a means to create an additional tax base
& jobs. Our immediate goal is to highlight this
project with a high-profile site in Europe.
This will be accomplished by leveraging existing
infrastructure at a site that offers good
transportation access (highways, waterways,
transit, rail, and air transit). Our
goal is also to prevent wasteful demolition by
repurposing unused building and structures in
these brownfield industrial sites. This can be
accomplished where funding and incentives are
available.
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