Accurate emissions estimation is critical for reporting and modelling purposes, and is an essential part of operating many industrial facilities. It enables management to keep track of its emissions, report to regional or national emissions inventories  and maintain compliance.

Emissions estimation underpins greenhouse gas management and impact assessments of transport activity, and is a fundamental step in identifying the sources of emissions and building a corporate/urban emissions inventory, and allows governments at all levels to develop appropriate air quality strategies.  

As a leader in this field, our consultants are skilled in the various techniques to estimate emissions for point, area-based, mobile and biogenic sources.

We have successfully estimated emissions from a range of sources including boilers, cooling towers, vehicles, aircraft, roadways, stockpiles, treatment ponds and industrial processes.

In Australia, we developed the Air Emissions Inventory for the Greater Metropolitan Region in NSW and South East Queensland (Brisbane) and we help industrial clients with their reporting obligations on an ongoing basis. We played a major technical role in the development of the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI), and also provided technical guidance to the NSW Government in developing its Load Based Licensing scheme. 

Our extensive service in this discipline includes developing: 

• Industry-specific emission factors
• Transport emission modelling (road traffic, aviation, shipping, rail and other off-road) 
• Site-specific emissions inventories for proposed or existing activities 
• Database and other software to facilitate reporting to the NPI in Australia
• Data acquisition strategies to assist emissions estimation and reporting 
• Greenhouse gas inventories for emissions reduction, entry into government sponsored greenhouse programs and carbon trading initiatives.