Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is making use of its experience in air high quality measurement to allow native authorities throughout Larger Manchester to watch the contribution to air air pollution from wooden burning stoves, increase public consciousness of its dangers, and scale back its influence on folks’s well being.
The agency has been awarded a multi-year contract by Transport for Larger Manchester, on behalf of the ten Larger Manchester councils, to watch the air high quality influence of the burning of strong gasoline in households throughout the city-region. Ricardo will monitor information from new air high quality sensors supplied by venture companion South Coast Science. The work types a part of a wider initiative funded by the UK Authorities’s Division for Setting, Meals and Rural Affairs (Defra) to enhance air high quality and can assist the native authorities to higher perceive how they’ll scale back air air pollution from home strong gasoline burning.
Ricardo already advises the ten Larger Manchester native authorities and runs their reference air high quality monitoring
community. By way of this new funded venture, working with venture companion South Coast Science, Ricardo scientists will
accumulate information from and supply high quality assurance and high quality management providers for 43 air high quality screens which will likely be in 41 places throughout Larger Manchester over the subsequent two years. Ricardo will present knowledgeable evaluation and reporting, in addition to guaranteeing that the efficiency and reliability of the sensors is maximised all through the contract.
The gadgets will monitor particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) nitrogen oxide (NO), carbon
monoxide (CO) and ozone (O 3). Ten of the 43 gadgets can even monitor carbon dioxide (CO 2). The measurements will
be taken in a variety of city and rural areas. 4 screens will likely be put in in every borough, with two in places with a excessive variety of wooden burning stoves and two in places the place home burning is thought to be much less seemingly. It will allow researchers to higher perceive the completely different concentrations of air air pollution. Three additional sensors will likely be situated with one of many steady reference monitoring stations for high quality management functions.
Cllr Eamonn O’Brien, Clear Air lead for Larger Manchester, stated: “Larger Manchester is dedicated to bettering air
high quality in our area and the info from this venture will assist us higher perceive the connection between use of
home burning and poor air high quality. The information we obtain from Ricardo will present us with high quality information wanted to
make knowledgeable selections relating to our coverage and motion plans and assist to ship well being and financial advantages to the
tens of millions of individuals in our area.”
Paul Willis, Technical Director, Air High quality and Setting at Ricardo, stated: “Ricardo has the longest established and one of many largest air high quality groups on the earth. For over 60 years, now we have labored with many metropolis authorities throughout the UK and internationally to assist them to cut back the adverse impacts of air air pollution. We’re honoured that
Transport for Larger Manchester has entrusted us with offering them with top quality information from the monitoring
community, and high quality assurance on that information. It will help their goal of utilizing this trusted proof to have interaction the general public, scale back native or private publicity to air air pollution and finally save lives and enhance public well being within the area.”
This venture is the most recent instance of Ricardo air high quality specialists offering trusted proof to regional authorities on the dangers of air air pollution. For the London Wooden Burning Challenge – a venture led by the London boroughs of Camden and Islington on behalf of 13 different collaborating London boroughs – which is funded by Defra, Ricardo undertook a Well being Impression Analysis that assessed human heath influence and related value of wooden burning (and different strong fuels) throughout the Larger London area.
