Updates

IAQM responds to Sustainable Design and Construction SPD

The IAQM have written to the GLA in response to their draft London SPD, which includes several elements that will assist with air quality management. The Institute broadly support the aims of the SPD and believe it will assist in achieving better air quality in London. We suggest several areas where it could be improved. Read ...

Ian McCrae Travel Award closing soon

Entries to the 2013 Ian McCrae Travel Award should be submitted before the 1st November. The annual award of up to £1000 is open to early career professionals to attend an air quality conference or training course in the UK or abroad. The prize money can be put towards the cost of the conference fee, ...

IAQM calls for new Air Quality Strategy

The IAQM have written to Lord De Mauley calling for a new updated Air Quality Strategy. The current Strategy was published in 2007 before the 2008 Air Quality Directive was adopted. Since then there has been growing evidence both of the failure the European directives to reduce exhaust emissions of nitrogen oxides for some vehicle classes, ...

Chair’s Column: September 2013

We are now more than three quarters of the way through the EU’s ‘year of air’. So far, it has proved to be quite eventful, although not in the way I imagined in January. Much has happened, with the courts and Government being prominent in a series of events that have occupied our minds. The ...

IAQM response to LAQM consultation

The Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) has written a reponse to Defra's review of local air quality management (LAQM). The Environment Act 1995 and associated regulations established the local air quality management system, under which all local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland are required to regularly review and assess air quality in their areas ...

Air quality and planning – have your say

The IES and IAQM are examining the role of local authorities in air quality and planning situations and is asking professionals working for local authorities in an air quality capacity to answer a short survey about air quality responsibilities with respect to planning. In the UK Local Authorities have a statutory duty for the ...