February 2022
Integrating air pollution, greenhouse gas and other wider impact analysis into decision-maker support tools
This webinar introduces emerging international guidance for estimating greenhouse gas, air pollutant and short lived climate pollutant emissions in an integrated way. It focuses on the pragmatic approaches for estimating air pollutant and greenhouse emissions and removals for use in assessing health impacts as well as tracking trends in greenhouse gases and short lived climate pollutants. The guidance also looks at how organisations can develop sustained centres of excellence that can provide data and expertise services to support policy and…
Find out more »IAQM webinar: Review of the national Air Quality Strategy
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)’s Air Quality and Industrial Emissions team will discuss the upcoming review of the national Air Quality Strategy. The presentation will discuss Defra’s plans for the Air Quality Strategy and progress to date on policy development with respect to three main areas:The role of local authorities in meeting the new national PM2.5 targets;Building local capability to ensure local authorities have the tools to take action;Addressing inequalities and the impacts of air pollution…
Find out more »April 2022
IAQM webinar – Integration of remote (satellite) sensors with traditional ground sensors
In this webinar, Bud Pope will outline trends in the emerging greenhouse gas and air quality sensor and data market, along with the challenges and opportunities facing industry and their stakeholders.The webinar will explore examples of multi-sensor deployments, predictive analytics and data from satellite to ground, and will review the strengths and weakness of the different approaches.Our speaker Bud Pope is founder and CEO of BlueSky Resources, a Boulder Colorado based company focused on providing sensor-based greenhouse gas and air quality…
Find out more »May 2022
Webinar – The HVAC system’s role in improving environmental air quality in buildings of all types
The time has come to fully recognize the presence of airborne contaminants in the indoor environment, including but not limited to the virus SARS-CoV-2 which results in the disease COVID-19. Concern now revolves around recent guidance suggesting that we have not seen evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through HVAC systems, which could mean it is not being removed from the space and returned to HVAC unit mounted air cleaning devices to be treated. It appears it may be remaining in the…
Find out more »July 2022
IAQM webinar: Odour assessment – Reflections on the effectiveness of IAQM guidance
It has now been eight years since the production of the IAQM guidance on the assessment of odours for planning (pdf). The guidance has been widely used and accepted by planning authorities.Michael Bull, the chair of the working group that produced the guidance, will discuss his experience of its use, talk about the basis of some of the advice given, and consider where experience suggests improvements could be made. Our speakerDr Michael Bull is an air quality consultant with over…
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