Air & Noise

SENES provides a broad scope of services related to the atmospheric environment and the management of air resources. Air quality (including noise) can be an important part of environmental assessments and operating licences. Existing air quality can affect development plans.

SENES has solved air quality and noise management problems and has a documented track record to prove it. We estimate emissions from all types of operations, identify and cost mitigative measures, model impacts and present results in technical reports or in public meetings.

Industries require environmental impact assessments, as well as help designing emission controls to meet air quality regulations, criteria and standards. Municipalities require air quality studies for planning purposes, for building permits and for compliance with official plans. Banks may require studies to prove that no significant environmental impacts exist before loans are released. Studies are also required if pollutants could be carried across an international border. SENES has successfully completed hundreds of these kinds of analyses.

SENES undertakes applied science projects and provides its interpretation in a form useful for policy for leading edge issues like global climate change or local issues like the reduction of impacts of energy use by individuals.

Our Air Quality related work includes

• assessment of impacts on air quality either on, or by, proposed projects including stationary and mobile sources using mathematical models;
• preparation, analysis and management of air emission inventories; air license and permit applications;
• selecting abatement technologies and their associated costs;
• application, development and verification of computer models that simulate contaminant behaviour in the atmosphere;
• the design and undertaking of air quality, odour and noise monitoring programs;
• advice and expert testimony on a wide range of air quality matters; and
• capacity building in air quality and noise management