Air Quality
Our team is at the forefront of the air quality profession.
Our scientists and engineers are leaders in advising on the air quality effects of activities and their management, mitigation, and monitoring for all sectors. We cover discharges to air from industrial processes, waste management, quarries and construction activities, providing assessments of odour, particulate matter, dust and gaseous emissions including greenhouse gases (GHGs).
Our advice supports resource consent applications for discharges to air and GHGs. We also undertake monitoring, compliance and reporting of air discharges, to meet consent requirements.
Services that we provide:
- Resource consent applications: technical reports to support assessments of environmental effects working with our planning team.
- Air quality monitoring: Ambient and indoor air quality monitoring, landfill gas testing and soil gas measurement.
- Air dispersion modelling: predictive modelling for environmental impact assessments and risk assessments for accidental releases using the latest tools.
- Emission estimation: development of emission inventories for sites and airsheds
- Combustion systems: assessment, design, optimisation and emissions management.
- Odour assessment, control and management: Investigation of odour problems, including field odour studies, odour measurement and modelling, design of odour control system and preparing odour management plans.
- Dust assessment: evaluation of dust sources, risks and recommending controls.
- Regional policy and plans: advice, including compliance through to expert witness evidence during plan development and hearings.
Andrew Curtis
Technical Director - Air Quality
Auckland
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Andrew Curtis
Technical Director - Air Quality
Auckland
Andrew is a Chemical Engineer with over 30 years of experience who has specialised for over 23 years in air quality, providing advice to clients in New Zealand, Australia and overseas. He has assisted a broad range of clients in the agriculture, construction and mining, industrial, transport, waste and power sectors, as well as local and central government, with resolving air quality issues, preparing and processing resource consents, and developing regulatory documents.
Andrew has significant experience with odour and dust investigation and control, reverse sensitivity issues, and presenting expert evidence in council hearings and the Environment Court.
Andrew is a Certified Air Quality professional and also a Certified Hearings Commissioner.
Deborah Ryan
Technical Director - Air Quality / Sustainability Lead, Director
Wellington
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Deborah Ryan
Technical Director - Air Quality / Sustainability Lead, Director
Wellington
Deborah is qualified in biotechnology and bioprocess engineering and has over 25 years of experience in air quality effects assessments including a wide range of industrial processes and infrastructure projects. Her experience includes air and odour assessment from municipal wastewater treatment systems, landfills, and industrial processes including discharges from rendering, wastewater and combustion plants.
Deborah is a Certified Air Quality Professional with CASANZ and routinely appears as a technical specialist at resource consent hearings, advising applicants and councils as an independent reviewer, making recommendations for mitigation, control and monitoring. She provides expert witness advice to assist with RMA planning and enforcement, particularly relating to adverse effects of odour and dust.
Jeff Bluett
Technical Director - Air Quality
Christchurch
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Jeff Bluett
Technical Director - Air Quality
Christchurch
Jeff is a leading air quality professional in New Zealand with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a nationally recognised and Certified Air Quality Professional with CASANZ and has more than 100 publications in aspects of transport, industrial and domestic emissions to air. Jeff has extensive experience in air quality and meteorological monitoring, dispersion modelling, impact assessment statements, regional and site-specific air quality management plans, emission measurements and inventories.
Chris Bender
Service Leader - Air Quality
Wellington
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Chris Bender
Service Leader - Air Quality
Wellington
Chris is an environmental scientist specialising in air quality matters with over 20 years’ experience including emissions and ambient air monitoring, meteorological and dispersion modelling, and preparation of air quality effects assessments. Chris has worked in consultancy in New Zealand for the last nine years directly undertaking a wide range of environmental effects assessments for discharges to air for industrial and infrastructural developments. His modelling work is used in assessing environmental effects for air discharge resource consent applications, often for complex sites which involved multiple industrial sources to assess the cumulative impacts of discharges.
Jonathan Harland
Service Leader - Air Quality
Auckland
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Jonathan Harland
Service Leader - Air Quality
Auckland
Jonathan is an Environmental Scientist with over 14 years of experience and specialist knowledge in the field of air quality, including emissions and ambient air monitoring, meteorological and dispersion modelling, and preparation of air quality effects assessments. He has assisted a broad range of clients in the agriculture, construction and mining, industrial, waste and power sectors, with resolving air quality issues, preparing and processing resource consents, and developing regulatory documents.
Jonathan is a Certified Air Quality professional.