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Air Quality, Odour & Dust 

We offer comprehensive air quality, dust, and odour monitoring and modelling services, including preliminary design advice, screening assessments, and detailed evaluations. 

We have experience in air quality management in the UK and internationally, Logika Group have been pivotal in developing the air quality criteria and assessment methods used by the European Commission and UK regulators. We advise the UK Government and its agencies on air quality issues to stay ahead of emerging policies. 

Our expert team provides comprehensive air quality assessments, including monitoring, field surveys, semi-quantitative studies, and numerical modelling. These services cover the design of Air Quality Positive and Air Quality Neutral assessments for the London Plan, as well as managing outdoor and indoor air quality issues, nuisance dust, odours, and pollutant emissions.  

We support planning, permit, and Development Consent Order applications, focusing on site suitability for proposed uses while prioritising human health and biodiversity. 

Services

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Modelling

Detailed dispersion modelling of air quality, dust and odour using ADMS. Bespoke techniques developed to verify and validate model results.

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Monitoring

Air quality, dust and odour monitoring and data analysis. Techniques range from diffusion tube, sniff testing and simple dust deposition to operation and servicing of multi pollutant automatic analysers.

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Expert Witness

Large team of experienced consultants able to provide expert witness services on air quality, dust and odour impacts on human health and biodiversity. Evidence given at public inquiries, planning committees and Development Consent Order (DCO) hearings on behalf of developers, local authorities and local interest groups.

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Dust

Assessments of dust impacts from a range of sources, including construction, waste, minerals and industrial processes using techniques ranging from simple screening and risk-based approaches to detailed dispersion modelling of complex sources. Expert technical evidence provided for planning and litigation.

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Odour

Odour impact assessments carried out using a range of tools including kitchen odour risk assessments, sniff testing and odour dispersion modelling. Support provided to developers, process operators and local authorities, including expert witness.

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Indoor

Preparation of BREEAM Indoor Air Quality Plans. Advice on indoor air quality monitoring and mitigation.

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Biodiversity

Extensive experience of developing assessment techniques for air quality impacts upon biodiversity, including development of the widely used CREAM ammonia emissions tool and JNCC guidance. This includes screening assessment, modelling inputs to HRA/sHRA and expert witness.

Air Quality, Odour & Dust Case Studies

 

Heathrow Expansion DCO

Heathrow Expansion is one of the UK’s largest ever infrastructure projects. The project is subject to considerable scrutiny, particularly related to the effects it has on the environment.

 
 

JNCC Nitrogen Futures

Air Quality Consultants Ltd formed part of the project team which assessed the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing air quality impacts on designated nature conservation sites.

 
 

RSSB Air Quality Monitoring Network (AQMN)

The monitoring programme (known as AQMN Work Package 1 (WP1)) has been running for over 30 months, with monitoring currently undertaken across 400+ sites, across 71 stations nationwide. Monitoring across most sites commenced in January 2022, with the project expected to run for three years and beyond.

 

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