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Air Quality Consultants

Clean air is essential for our health and wellbeing, and air quality itself is facing heightened regulatory attention due to the climate emergency. Our highly regarded air quality consultants offer a comprehensive range of services, including feasibility studies, advisory services, community engagement, training, planning, permitting, and monitoring of air, odour, and dust. We also work closely with wider Sweco environmental teams to ensure effective, joined-up solutions.

Our air quality consultancy services

Feasibility studies

  • Traffic light feasibility assessment highlighting any potential constraints to development
  • Site appraisal and selection
  • Stack height/location assessment
  • Local and National legislation, guidance and policy review
  • Clean air action planning

Air, odour & dust monitoring

  • Advising on suitable monitoring equipment
  • Selecting monitoring locations
  • Managing monitoring campaigns
  • Analysing and processing monitoring results
  • Full data management (collating, cleaning & combining)
  • Visualisation for stakeholder presentation

Air, odour & dust dispersion modelling

  • Building robust emissions inventories
  • Dispersion modelling of all emissions including road traffic and point source emissions
  • Digital reporting (ADMS, ADMS ROADS; AERMOD and CALPUFF)
  • Smart buildings support

Corporate & government advisory services

  • Development of Action Plan and Local Air Quality Strategies
  • Review and assessment for LAQM purposes
  • Act as Expert witness
  • Engage and manage Stakeholders
  • Masterplan support

Planning and permitting

  • Environmental Impact Assessments
  • Preparing and compiling EIA screening and Scoping inputs
  • Preparing and compiling ES, Planning statement and Inquiry evidence documentation inputs when required
  • Detailed air quality assessments in support of environmental permitting applications across the UK and Ireland
  • Community engagement
  • Stakeholder presentations through virtual rooms where required

Training

  • Guidance & training on all aspects of air quality

Greenhouse gas verification for improved air quality

Developing a GHG emissions inventory for your business activities presents an ideal opportunity to address the associated air pollutant emissions that can adversely impact air quality, relating to both human health and ecosystems.

Such emissions might include oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), sulphur dioxide (SO2), particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ammonia (NH3), and more.

In many cases, these pollutants will be emitted via the same activities as those for GHGs, including but not limited emissions from vehicles, onsite heating/power plant, back-up power generation, industrial facilities, intensive farming processes, and construction activities.

The streamlining of GHG and air pollutant inventories allows the relevant emissions reduction strategies / action plans / performance targets etc. to include common measures targeted at both GHG and air pollutants, ensuring a path towards net zero can align with a net air quality improvement.

Sweco UK benefits from a team of air quality specialists with expertise in developing air pollutant emissions inventories for a range of projects across an array of sectors. If you are seeking to take a pro-active step in reducing your pollutant emissions to air in tandem with paving your way to net zero, please get in touch with our Air Quality team.

Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our engineers, consultants and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable.​ With international multi-disciplinary teams, we can call on the right insight and technical capability at the right time from across Buildings, Infrastructure, Advisory & Planning and Compliance.​