Air Quality Studies for Performance Based Solutions

Air quality study using wind tunnel flow visualisation

Performance-Based Air Quality Studies

Air quality is often managed through prescriptive rules, usually based on minimum separation distances between exhaust sources and accessible outdoor areas. These rules can miss important wind effects, such as pollutants being channelled between podiums or trapped within a shielded catchment.

Windtech provides performance-based studies that allow the design team to respond to the actual site conditions, wind climate, building form, nearby shielding, and the proposed locations of exhausts such as commercial kitchens, car parks, and standby generators.

Early Design Advice and Testing

Windtech can provide high-level input during early design stages and, where needed, use wind tunnel flow visualisation or CFD to test whether a proposed discharge location is acceptable. In the example shown in the archived news item, a kitchen exhaust below a communal terrace was studied and a canopy solution was demonstrated to improve the outcome.

This kind of assessment gives project teams more flexibility than a purely prescriptive approach, while still protecting amenity and safety for people using nearby terraces, podiums, and public areas.