Hospitals are one of the few buildings where the air itself is part of the treatment. Patients recovering from surgery, people with weakened immune systems, and staff working long shifts all depend on air that is clean, well ventilated and properly monitored. Yet most guidance you’ll find online is written for American or Canadian hospitals, […]
Gyms put more strain on indoor air than almost any other type of building. Dozens of people breathing hard in one room, chalk dust in the lifting area, disinfectant sprayed on equipment all day, and often a studio with no windows at all. Members come to get healthier but if the ventilation can’t keep up, […]
You’ll see PM2.5 and PM10 on air quality reports, planning conditions and monitoring data all the time. They sound similar, but they behave differently, come from different places, and are treated differently under UK law. This guide explains the difference in easy way what each one is, where it comes from, what it does to […]
Schools and care homes have something important in common: they hold some of the people most affected by poor air quality, for some of the longest hours of the day. Children’s lungs are still developing. Older residents in care homes often already live with respiratory or heart conditions. Both settings also answer to a regulator […]
Industrial developments face tougher air quality scrutiny than almost any other type of scheme. Between a busy planning process and, very often, a separate environmental permit, an industrial project can need two different air quality assessments looking at two different things. Get either wrong and you’re facing objections, delays, or refusal. This guide explains what […]
Air quality monitoring sounds simple: put a monitor out, collect the numbers, write the report. In practice, small errors in how a survey is set up and analysed can produce data that’s misleading, rejected by a planning officer, or useless for the decision it was meant to support. We prepare monitoring surveys for planning and […]
If you’re planning construction work anywhere in the UK, the way your dust risk is assessed has changed. The Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) updated its construction dust guidance to Version 2.2, and the changes are significant enough that the same site can now land in a completely different risk band than it would […]
You’ve found a site. You’ve drawn up plans. And now your local planning authority has asked for an air quality assessment and you’re not entirely sure what that means, how much it costs, or how long it takes. Air quality can be a material consideration in planning. The need for an assessment depends on the […]
If you’re planning a development anywhere in Greater London, there’s one requirement you can’t skip: your scheme must be air quality neutral. Get it wrong, and your planning application can be delayed or refused. Get it right, and it’s usually a straightforward part of your submission. This guide explains exactly what air quality neutral means, […]
If you’ve landed here, there’s a good chance a planning officer has just told you that you need an air quality assessment and you’re not entirely sure what that means, whether you really need it, or what it’s going to cost you. That’s completely normal. It’s one of those planning requirements that sounds far more […]
