Updates
Improving indoor air quality – environmental SCIENTIST journal
The IAQM have been working with the IES to produce an edition of the environmental SCIENTIST journal focussed on improving indoor air quality as part of its commitment to expand its work into indoor air. The June 2021 edition of the environmental SCIENTIST examines aspects that are important to understanding how to achieve good indoor air ...
Can a low-cost air quality monitor offer near-reference level data?
Most countries around the world rely on government reference stations to monitor background air quality. Whilst very accurate, they are also very expensive and are normally fixed in position.In recent years, as more has become known about air quality, we have learnt that not only does it vary from street to street, but also between ...
How multivariate cost benefit analysis can drive effective air quality management
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world, with a population of 20.2 million people in the Greater Dhaka Area. It is the largest city in Eastern South Asia having frequently topped the index of the world’s cities with the ...
Member consultation: Indoor Air Quality Guidance
The IAQM is consulting members on its new Indoor Air Quality Guidance: Assessment, Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation (pdf). The document has been produced to assist its members in the assessment of indoor air quality (IAQ). It is guidance for appropriately qualified practitioners and is not intended to be a comprehensive handbook on IAQ.We welcome comments ...
Webinar: The role of local authorities in managing air pollution
In this webinar, Davide Pascarella considers the implications of the Environment Bill on local governments' regulatory framework around Smoke Control Areas. Davide explores and highlights the impact of policy decisions and the real-world delivery of initiatives to tackle the contribution to air pollution from wood-burning appliances. Studies indicate residential wood-burning stoves result in PM2.5 emissions ...
Prevention of Future Deaths Report published following 2013 death of Ella Abdoo Kissi-Debrah
Ella Abdoo Kissi-Debrah died of her asthma in 2013, aged just 9 years old. Her mother, Rosamund, convinced that air pollution had a role to play fought hard to get her inquest re-opened. Eventually, in December 2019, she was successful. A year later, Philip Barlow, the Assistant Coroner for Inner South London, issued a new ...