Air quality assessment for a hotel development at Heathrow

19 August 2016

Aether has recently completed an air quality assessment for a proposed hotel development near to Heathrow Airport.

The project used the ADMS dispersion model and local monitoring data to predict air quality pollutant concentrations at the development site and at nearby residential properties. The site lies in a GLA air quality focus area.

There are 187 Air Quality Focus Areas in the Capital. These are locations that not only exceed the EU annual mean limit value for nitrogen dioxide, but are also locations with high human exposure. The focus areas were defined to address concerns raised by boroughs within the Local Air Quality Management review process. They are not an exhaustive list of London hotspot locations, but where the GLA believe the problem to be most acute. For further information, please see: http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/air-quality-focus-areas

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Umweltbundesamt: Environment Agency Austria

“A heartfelt thank you to all the Aether team for this very comprehensive review – this is certainly turning out to be one of the most beneficial capacity building projects I have ever been involved in.”

Saviour Vassallo, Senior Environment Protection Officer, Malta Resources Authority

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Annette Rattigan-Leo, Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer

“Engaging Aether to support us to develop the first GHG Inventory System and first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the United Republic of Tanzania has been a rewarding experience due to their high level of professionalism, creativity, timeliness and value for money. We will definitely consider Aether in our future initiatives.”

Abbas Kitogo, Programme Specialist Energy and Climate Change, UNDP Tanzania

“Aether delivered training workshops and generated learning materials for our SSN members, providing technical content in a manageable and comprehendible format. We particularly benefitted from their extensive knowledge and ability to interpret the needs of our members into the training materials.”

Jennifer Anderson, Sustainable Scotland Network

“Professional team and very collaborative communication. Effective result in terms of suggestions for improvement in the quality of the inventory and proposals on how to streamline specific topics.”

Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research

“We have been collaborating with Aether for several years, and our projects have greatly benefited from it. Aether staff are very knowledgeable, professional and flexible - and last but not least, very friendly and a pleasure to work with.”

Umhverfisstofnun, Environment Agency of Iceland

“Chris was excellent to work with and always very pro active in making suggestions, taking work forward and applying his considerable technical knowledge in effective ways.”

Robert Vaughan, Defra Air Quality Team

“The Aether team were a joy to work with and I would recommend the consultancy - the service provided throughout the process was exceptional.”

Clare Bayley, Defra

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