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Guidance
The Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) is committed to enhancing the understanding and development of the science behind air quality by promoting knowledge and understanding of best working practices. Therefore from time to time the IAQM publishes guidance and recommendations to aid its members. This page also serves as an archive for Environmental Protection UK (EPUK) documents.
| Dust Guidance 2012 | Download |  |
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This updated document is designed to provide guidance for developers, their consultants and environmental health officers on how to assess impacts from construction sites. You can aldo download an example of the application of the guidance with an associated site map (jpg). |
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| Combined Heat and Power and Air Quality Guidance 2012 | Download | |
EPUK and the London Borough of Camden present this finalised guidance incorporating feedback received on the draft documents released for consultation (Dec 2011). The guidance provides background material on the issues involved, and details procedures for assessing and managing the effects of CHP on air quality – specifically nitrogen dioxide. The document covers England and Wales only at present, although the principals and processes the guidance describes will largely be applicable elsewhere in the UK. The guidance’s main editor, Ed Dearnley, can be contacted at info@dearnley.org.uk. List of accompanying documents:
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| Air Quality and Climate 2011 | Download | |
| This document, developed by Environmental Protection UK, sets out why local authorities need to tackle air quality and climate change, and outlines the benefits of an integrated approach. It also examines how local authorities can successfully implement integrated policy, and introduce integrated policy into the relevant plans and strategies that guide a local authority’s functions. Finally it examines some common measures that local authorities can promote to reduce emissions of local air pollutants and greenhouse gases, and whether these measures benefit both sets of emissions, or whether cuts in one set of emissions will be at the expense of a rise in the other. A summary leaflet is also available to download. | ||
| Biomass and Air Quality Guidance 2010 | Download | |
Environmental Protection UK and LACORS (now Local Government Regulation) presents guidance for English and Welsh local authorities on biomass and air quality. The guidance provides background material on the issues involved, and details procedures for assessing and managing the effects of biomass on air quality – specifically nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulates (PM10 and PM2.5). A number of tools are also available to help local authorities assess the potential impacts of biomass boilers and keep records of installed boilers. List of accompanying documents:
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| Air Quality 2010 | Download | |
| This document updates the guidance originally published by EPUK in November 2004 (and subsequently revised in September 2006). The guidance has been widely used by local authorities, air quality consultants and developers, and lessons learnt over the past five years have led to a number of revisions, which are summarised below. In particular there is greater emphasis on measures to mitigate the impacts. | ||
| Significance in Air Quality, November 2009 | Download | |
| Following discussion amongst the membership the Institute have prepared recommendations for assessing the significance of air quality impacts. | ||
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