April 4th, 2018 – Paris, France and Melbourne, Australia Environnement S.A have announced a partnership with EMS Bruel & Kjaer bringing together its extensive air quality monitoring instrumentation under the newly created trademark envea™ and its global distribution channel and customer base to extend the capability of EMS’s environmental ...
Staff in buildings that have been certified as „green. under the LEED scheme are just as satisfied with their indoor working environment as people working in non-LEED buildings, according to research on commercial buildings. The study suggests that investment in the thermal and acoustic aspects of buildings, however, would further improve occupant satisfaction. LEED1 (Leadership in Energy ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today granted a petition submitted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to limit sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from a Pennsylvania power plant that are adversely impacting air quality in Warren, Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. This is the first single-source petition the agency has granted and it will require ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a pleasure to be here today. First of all, thank you Bas (Eickhout) for hosting this event. And thank you also Jackie (McGlade) for your interesting perspectives. The air quality report of the European Environment Agency provides a useful review of the successes we have achieved with EU air quality legislation, but it is also a powerful reminder of the scale of the ...
In December 2009 the New South Wales Office of Water (NOW) contracted KISTERS to implement a new organisation-wide advanced sampling data management system. The system was required to replace their 15 year old in-house water quality system with a modern commercial package. The KISTERS Water Quality Module KiWQM is designed for the efficient and effective management, analysis, and reporting of ...
The VOC72M, a key product of Environnement S.A (France) for the measurement of benzene, has obtained end of December the TÜV certification for ambient air monitoring. The analyser has passed successfully the laboratory and 3 months field investigations and found to comply with VDI 4202-1 : 2010, VDI 4203-3 : 2010, EN 14662-3 : 2005, EN 15267-1 : 2009 and EN 15267-2 : 2009. Environnement S.A ...
ET was delighted to have Teledyne-API’s (TAPI) Director of Technical Services, Mike Troy visit its Stroud facility to deliver bespoke technical training for all of ET’s 13 service engineers as well as 5 service engineers from TAPI’s Belgian, French and Netherlands distributor, EnviControl. The training centered on some of the newer TAPI monitoring technology including ...
This report offers insights into the market opportunities and entry strategies adopted by foreign OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to gain a market share in the South African defense industry. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the following: ...
Clean air will be the focus of EU environmental policy discussions throughout 2013, the Year of Air. The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides a wealth of information underpinning the review of air pollutant legislation. Air pollution remains a concern for public health and the environment, according to the most recent analyses published by the EEA. To improve the situation, the ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 2013 Green Week! I am encouraged by the high interest that this year's theme is attracting. One can ask the question: can we afford to take time to discuss air quality? Europe is trying to move out of an unprecedented economic crisis. Many people - too many people - are losing their job. Poverty is on the rise. ...
It’s not just environmental monitoring equipment that will come under scrutiny at this year’s MCERTS Conference – delegates will be able to get an up-to-the-minute read-out on local air pollution levels. Enviro Technology Services plc – a world leader in the supply of advanced environmental air quality monitoring systems – will have an Opsis open-path DOAS system set up outside the main door ...
LA Testing provides both outdoor and indoor air quality (IAQ) testing solutions to help identify airborne contaminants to protect students and teachers. Garden Grove, CA, August 5th, 2010 Asthma is a common childhood disease that new research indicates may be made worse for some children due to air pollution at their schools. The Environmental Health ...
Hot summer days cause in large cities very seldom great happiness among inhabitants. On those days the air is highly polluted with automobile and industrial emissions what makes breathing difficult and unhealthy. According to the latest calculations of Max Planck scientist Andrea Pozzer this scenario could become true for most of world population in 2050 if no counteractive measures are ...
Reductions in air pollution in European cities significantly reduce the number of premature deaths, according to researchers. However, these results need to be communicated effectively to policy makers in order to have an impact. One of the four main target areas of the EU's Sixth Environment Action Programme (EAP)1 is Environment and Health, which includes air pollution. Particulate matter is ...
The specialist instrumentation provider, Air Monitors, has launched a new division to cater specifically for the air monitoring requirements of the food industry. Sales Manager Colin Craggs says “This initiative has been taken in response to a recent rise in enquiries from the food and beverage markets, combined with advances in measurement technology.” The new division will focus on ...
At first glance the physiological demands of the firefighter, the scuba diver and the hospital patient have little in common. One is trained to deal with fire and rescue, one swims underwater and one is concerned with either regaining or improving their health. Yet all three depend to some extent on a safe source of compressed breathing air. In the case of the firefighter, portable breathing sets ...
Instant accurate data download or a week of manual data input? That is the choice facing technicians with numerous borehole gas analysis data sets. Those with data download will not wish go back to keying in endless datasets from manual notes with its risk for data entry errors. For technicians using Geotech’s latest Gas Analyser Manager software (GAMS), those days have gone. With one or ...
The research and development conducted by inge watertechnologies AG within the 'AQUASens' project, receives funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung-BMBF). In cooperation with Siemens AG, FRIZ Biochem Gesellschaft für Bioanalytik GmbH, the Institut for Waterchemistry and Chemical Balneology of the Technical University of ...
Plumes of harmful air pollutants can be transported across oceans and continents -- from Asia to the United States and from the United States to Europe -- and have a negative impact on air quality far from their original sources, says a new report by the National Research Council. Although degraded air quality is nearly always dominated by local emissions, the influence of non-domestic pollution ...
ET’s Sales & Marketing Director, Duncan Mounsor, joined Shadow Environment Minister Barry Gardiner MP and Thangam Debbonaire (Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol West) raising public awareness of air pollution and testing the air quality outside a Bristol city centre school. Duncan explains “ideally I’d have liked to have used one of ET’s professional ...