Updates
IAQM reaches membership milestone
We are very pleased to announce that in June the IAQM’s membership reached 400 members.
When the organisation was founded in 2002, we estimated that there were 400 individuals working in the whole air quality profession in the UK. Over the past fifteen years the profession has expanded, and there is no doubt that the Institute ...
Entries for the Ian McCrae Award are now open!
Dr Ian McCrae was a very well respected and widely liked air quality practitioner who worked for TRL. He made significant contributions to the understanding of emissions from transport and links with air quality. Tragically he died suddenly in February 2010 aged 46.
The annual Ian McCrae award is presented to an IAQM Associate Member or ...
IAQM disappointed by delay to Government’s Air Quality Plan
The Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) is disappointed that the Government has not met the High Court’s deadline to publish the consultation draft of its 2017 Air Quality Plan.
In November, after a case was brought by the environmental law charity ClientEarth, the High Court ruled that the Government’s 2015 Air Quality Plan did not ...
Time for a new Clean Air Act? environmental SCIENTIST Air Quality special
The IAQM are pleased to announce the publication a special edition of the environmental SCIENTIST journal, focusing on air quality.
Though experts have been aware of the issue for many years, it is only in recent years that the majority of the media and public have become aware of the severity of the air quality crisis ...
Chair’s Column, April 2017
If you are fairly new to air quality, and by that, I mean with less than four or five years’ experience, this column is for you.
We have started an Early Careers Group to help our Associates and less experienced Members develop their skills, and to meet others in the same position. The idea is that ...
Reducing emissions from Medium Combustion Plants and Generators
In February, the IAQM committee wrote to Defra, to respond to the department's consultation on reducing emissions from Medium Combustion Plants and Generators to improve air quality.
Amongst other points, the committee welcomed the proposal to transpose and implement the Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD). The committee shares Defra's view that, given the large number of such ...