Dr Jessica Muirhead joins Air Quality Consultants as an Associate Director; with over 18 years industry experience in air quality consultancy, with her expertise in air quality assessments for UK urban regeneration and renewable energy projects.
Dr Jessica Muirhead is an Associate Director with AQC with over 18 years experience in Air Quality consultancy. Prior to joining AQC in 2024, she spent eleven years at AECOM leading the Air Quality Team’s Urban Regeneration and Solar Farm work streams. She has been responsible for delivering numerous air quality assessments for planning applications and Development Consent Orders (DCOs) including Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) across London and the UK. She spent a year as Technical Advisor to the Greater London Authority delivering training workshops to the London Boroughs, reviewing referrable planning applications and responding to queries on air quality positive and air quality neutral. Jess also has extensive experience providing technical peer reviews for a number of Planning Authorities in the UK, and for The Royal Commission for Al Ula in Saudi Arabia. In joining AQC, Jess will provide further expertise in major developments within Greater London as well as DCO renewable energy applications.
I have found the staff at AQC to be very friendly and helpful when carrying out assessments on our behalf.
East Herts Council
Air Quality Consultants was able to demonstrate that the existing configuration of the plant was acceptable, with no new chimney stack required, saving the client more than £100,000 in up-front costs, as well as avoiding potential local opposition.
Redevelopment of a Grade 2* Art Deco hospital into residential apartments.
The process impacts, and value-for-money evaluation framework helps to identify what further action is needed to improve the natural environment for the remainder of the plan period.
Logika Group quantified the air quality benefits of School Streets that were installed as part of the London Mayor’s Streetspace for London programme.
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