Safeguarding air quality from odour-producing facilities
Why Choose Us?
Encon Associates provides expert Odour Assessments to help support planning applications and ensure regulatory compliance.
Understanding Odour Assessments
What is an Odour Assessment?
Odour Assessments evaluate the presence, intensity, and impact of odours emitted from a particular source or location, such as industrial facilities, agricultural operations, and food production sites.
These assessments are commonly required for environment, regulatory, or planning purposes, particularly in industries where odour generation could affect local communities or the environment.
The key components of an Odour Assessment include odour modelling, field testing, source identification, and receptor impact analysis to determine the extent of potential odour nuisance. Developers and businesses can then implement appropriate odour control measures to ensure compliance with environmental and planning policies. If you’re working towards BREEAM certification, Odour Assessments can also aid you in achieving vital credits for Hea 02.
Our Odour Assessment service
The Encon Associates approach to Odour Assessments
Our detailed Odour Assessments are specifically designed to meet stringent Local Authority and environmental requirements.
We combine computer modelling with on-site assessments to identify the intensity and detectability of odour emissions within a facility. We can then use this data to predict odour movements and evaluate the likelihood of odour nuisance at nearby receptors, such as residential areas and public spaces.
We then collaborate with developers and local authorities to design effective odour control strategies that help mitigate these impacts. For example, we may recommend that your facility implements filtration systems or scrubbers to reduce odour intensity, or we could help you modify your processes to reduce odour during peak hours. All of this ensures your project meets UK air quality and planning regulations.
We partner with organisations like yours
We recently renovated a large early Edwardian home. Part of the planning approval was the need to obtain an excellent rating from BREEAM in our renovation. This covered everything from responsibly sourcing materials to energy efficient heat pumps and solar panels. Not being a developer the whole BREEAM process was very difficult to understand at first. Luckily we had Encon, and in particular, Glenn on our side. They provided invaluable advice and guidance, were reachable all the time and processed everything in a very timely manner. What was important was that we were able to seek their advice and counsel before we made key purchasing decisions. BREEAM is a complicated process and can seem overwhelming if unfamiliar with it. Having Encon on board with us had helped us achieve our goals of having an environmentally excellent renovation of a 1905 house.
Additional services
We offer a wide array of specialist services that complement our Odour Assessment services and are designed to boost your project’s overall sustainability rating.
From Daylight Calculations and Tree Surveys to Traffic Assessments and Acoustic Reports, our team provides the technical expertise you need to achieve the highest environmental rating possible.
Want to gain environmental credits or need planning advice for your next project?
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Frequently asked questions about Odour Assessments
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