Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is making use of its experience in air high quality measurement to allow native authorities throughout Better Manchester to watch the contribution to air air pollution from wooden burning stoves, increase public consciousness of its dangers, and scale back its affect on folks’s well being.

The agency has been awarded a multi-year contract by Transport for Better Manchester, on behalf of the ten Better Manchester councils, to watch the air high quality affect of the burning of strong gasoline in households throughout the city-region. Ricardo will monitor information from new air high quality sensors offered by venture associate South Coast Science. The work kinds 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 raised perceive how they will scale back air air pollution from home strong gasoline burning.

Ricardo already advises the ten Better Manchester native authorities and runs their reference air high quality monitoring
community. By this new funded venture, working with venture associate South Coast Science, Ricardo scientists will
gather information from and supply high quality assurance and high quality management providers for 43 air high quality displays which will likely be in 41 areas throughout Better Manchester over the following two years. Ricardo will present professional evaluation and reporting, in addition to making certain that the efficiency and reliability of the sensors is maximised all through the contract.

The units 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 units may even monitor carbon dioxide (CO 2). The measurements will
be taken in a variety of city and rural areas. 4 displays will likely be put in in every borough, with two in areas with a excessive variety of wooden burning stoves and two in areas the place home burning is understood to be much less doubtless. This may allow researchers to raised perceive the completely different concentrations of air air pollution. Three additional sensors will likely be positioned with one of many steady reference monitoring stations for high quality management functions.
Cllr Eamonn O’Brien, Clear Air lead for Better Manchester, stated: “Better Manchester is dedicated to bettering air
high quality in our area and the information from this venture will assist us higher perceive the connection between use of
home burning and poor air high quality. The info we obtain from Ricardo will present us with high quality information wanted to
make knowledgeable choices 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 planet. For over 60 years, we’ve labored with many metropolis authorities throughout the UK and internationally to assist them to scale back the damaging impacts of air air pollution. We’re honoured that
Transport for Better Manchester has entrusted us with offering them with top quality information from the monitoring
community, and high quality assurance on that information. This may 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 in the end 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 Venture – 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 Influence Analysis that assessed human heath affect and related value of wooden burning (and different strong fuels) throughout the Better London area.