Technical Infrastructure of the Area in the Brownfield Cataloguing Process

Abstract

The issue of brownfields is currently one of the frequently discussed topics both in the sphere of spatial planning and in related areas such as building construction, data models of buildings, or environment. This issue is not local in character, but is tied to human civilization on a global scale. Of course, brownfield issues can be divided into several separate sub-areas. These are, above all, the area of identification and cataloguing, the area of exploration and rehabilitation of particular localities, especially in terms of remediation of ecological contamination, as well as the area of actual revitalization of individual localities and consequently further monitoring after revitalization. Parallel to these components is the implementation of the issue into the legislative framework of a particular state. The Legislative Base of the Czech Republic was dealt with as part of the contribution to the WMCEAUP Symposium in 2016. It was followed by a series of expert papers focusing on the cataloguing of brownfield sites from various points of view - building technical condition, fire safety design of buildings, transport infrastructure and others. This article is a further continuation and deals with brownfield databases in terms of monitored phenomena of the technical infrastructure. Within the legislation of the Czech Republic, the cataloguing is solved both by means of territorial analytical documents of municipalities and by means of territorial studies. In the case of municipalities’ territorial analyses, brownfields are classified as the observed phenomenon No.: 4a. However, it is not yet specified which data will be tracked (except location). In spatial studies, content is defined very freely, as it is a very general tool for spatial planning. Since, apart from the building law, the issue of brownfields in the Czech Republic is not legislatively treated, there is no uniform methodology for the identification and cataloguing of brownfields. Therefore, the content of individual databases is always compiled solely according to the requirements of the submitter of the study. However, the areas of information that appear regularly in databases can be traced. One of these is information about the technical infrastructure. This information is initially divided into two sub-areas - information on the possibilities of connecting particular site and the area of inner structure of existing distributions.