The potential for air quality, odour, and noise impacts resulting from industrial, mining, land development, and infrastructure projects continues to rate amongst the highest concerns for nearby communities.
GHD provides practical, science-based air quality, odour and noise management solutions. We consider sustainable practice and legislative demands on air, odour, and noise outcomes to help clients reach targets efficiently. The right advice in air, odour, and noise can help the environment, improve project success and reduce lifecycle costs.
Our network of globally-connected air, odour, and noise specialists provide the following services:
- Ambient air, odour, and noise monitoring - assess existing conditions to understand the current state of impact and inform future planning
- Air dispersion modelling assessments - modelling to characterise emissions from the proposed development and determine impacts
- Compliance - assess the effects of air/odour discharges and noise emissions against regulatory standards and risk assessment
- Climate change assessments - assess the significance and likely effects of the changing climate on current and future operations, including water management, infrastructure, energy use, and sustainability
- Design - noise and vibration control design to minimise the impact of developments on occupants and the environment
- Emissions inventories - quantify what is being discharged through licenced and un-licenced discharge points
- Emissions management and abatement - management plans or abatement design for implementation, audit and adjustment to comply with proposed conditions and regulatory changes
- Expert witness - litigation, disputes, and representation
- Greenhouse gas - reduce, validate, verify or manage greenhouse emissions for existing and future projects
- Licence/permit amendment - assess and develop solutions in air quality and noise management for existing assets to comply with changes in licensing and regulation
- Meteorological baseline assessment - review meteorology and climate conditions to gauge the impact to projects
- Noise modelling - understand the noise impacts of developments on users, surrounding communities and the environment
- Site specific weather forecasting - for major infrastructure projects specific to construction location for field teams as part of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) program
Our team of industry professionals work collaboratively with clients across the globe and harness the most up-to-date technology in the air, odour and noise management sphere.
Not only do we have the depth of experience required to manage the complex processes surrounding air quality, odour and noise management requirements, we have the broader resources from a wide range of disciplines that can be tapped into at any time in the project lifecycle.
Below are your key contacts for Air and Noise
It is wonderful that GHD is a major player in this community, nationally, and internationally and that they have chosen to consolidate their work here in Waterloo Region. Our Region is home to many professionals and GHD continues that proud tradition.
Ken Seiling
Regional Chair of the Region of Waterloo
