L&B's experts in climate change and air emissions, are leaders in this field and have a wealth of research and technical capabilities to offer key insights into this subject which is still considered 'emerging' from a research and understanding perspective, as well as a regulatory perspective. Our specialists maintain a key awareness of the leading studies on global climate issues and are leaders in the development of the models that are used to predict project specific impacts.

Air Quality: Air Emission Assessments / Climate Change

L&B's team of professionals is able to conduct all types of air emissions inventories and air dispersion analyses, as well as particle deposition studies, human health risk assessments, hazardous air pollutant analyses, and air quality monitoring. Our planners have extensive experience developing air emission inventories, focusing on emission sources that are unique to airports such as aircraft engines, ground support equipment (GSE) and auxiliary power units (APU). We focus on early and extensive air quality coordination to ensure a thorough and comprehensive review of air quality. As a result, our analyses have withstood the most rigorous legal challenges.

We have a team of specialists who are devoted to using the latest technology to maintain L&B's air emissions modeling capability. L&B has followed the development of the Emissions and Dispersion Modeling (EDMS), the primary tool used to quantify airport air emissions model since 1995, through membership on the FAA's EDMS Design Review Group. This group is composed of professional airport air quality specialists who assist in the development of the model and test new revisions before they are released to the general public.

L&B has the expertise needed to guide airport operators through an integrated program of promoting and demanding energy efficiencies, develop a comprehensive energy portfolio that minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, develop and promote an offset program and evaluate the initiative's efficiency.