The Institute of Air Quality Management website has had a facelift. The new site goes live on Monday 16 July. The new look site has been designed to be more user friendly than the old site. It was felt that the old site did not really attract members to browse it regularly and that by making a fresh start some of the cobwebs could be blown away.

The Institute is making a determined effort to make the new site an active and vibrant forum for air quality professionals. With a dedicated website team we aim to have regular and up to date news appearing on the site. The site will continue to host job advertisements geared to the interests of its members in the academic, public and private sectors.

In addition the revised website will provide an enhanced interface with the membership. One aspect of this will be hosting of the IAQM’s responses to relevant consultations such as the recent Government consultation on the Climate Change Bill.

The IAQM is also planning to host topical events. This process started with an event, jointly organised by the IES, on indoor air quality. More recently there was a most stimulating presentation by Professor Stephen Holgate on the air quality aspects of the recent RCEP report; “The Urban Environment”.

Forthcoming events include the AGM of the Institute at ARUP’s offices (13 Fitzroy Street, London) on Wednesday 14th November starting at 2pm which will include a number of presentations. The topic(s) for these have yet to be finalised. This will be followed in the early evening by the Burntwood lecture to be given by Dr. Martin Williams of Defra on “Air quality in 2050­synergies and trade­offs with climate change”. The venue for this has yet to be confirmed but is likely to be the Grosvenor offices in Grosvenor Street.

For further information contact Dr. David Muir:

The UK Government and the devolved administrations published the latest Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, 17 July 2007 The strategy:
sets out a way forward for work and planning on air quality issues sets out the air quality standards and objectives to be achievedintroduces a new policy framework for tackling fine particlesidentifies potential new national policy measures which modelling indicates could give further health benefits and move closer towards meeting the strategy’s objectives.

Visit the DEFRA website to download the document

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· School of Economics
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