Prof. Duncan Laxen, Managing Director of Air Quality Consultants Ltd and Dr Ben Marner, Technical Director of Air Quality Consultants Ltd were both members of the working group that developed the revised guidance. A new aspect of the guidance is inclusion of a detailed section on mitigation measures that should be applied during demolition and construction.
The updated approach:
- assesses the risk of dust impacts arising without mitigation, taking account of
- the magnitude of dust emissions and
- the sensitivity of the area; and
- uses this information to propose site-specific mitigation.
It concludes that, with appropriate dust mitigation, the residual effects will normally be not significant.
Air Quality Consultants Ltd is now applying the updated guidance to its air quality assessments for all new projects.
When required, this information is also used to help prepare a Dust Management Plan for the demolition/construction phase of a project. Where appropriate, this can include dust monitoring, which follows separate IAQM guidance (available here). Steve Moorcroft, Director of Air Quality Consultants Ltd chaired the IAQM working group that developed the dust monitoring guidance.
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