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.
Always find those I work with very helpful and in particular make great effort to meet timescales, which are often very short.
Partner Construction Ltd
A mixed-use development of up to 2,500 homes with offices, retail and leisure.
Support to the Asian Development Bank in developing the Asia Clean Blue Sky Program to scale up investment projects on air quality management in developing member countries.
Student accommodation in an area of poor air quality
Development of a plan to improve air quality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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