A decade-long Canadian study of 6.6 million people, published in The Lancet, found that 1 in 10 dementia deaths in people living within 50 metres of a busy road was attributable to traffic fumes and noise. The team tracked adults aged between 20 and 85 living in Ontario from 2001 to 2012 and over the study period, more than 243,000...
What has been going on? Meeting many LGs across London and the rest of the UK Learning about what LGs want and how Deliver Change can facilitate Different ways LGs could fund AirSensa units Free data for Government Part of the business plan for AirSensa, is to provide the data from the AirSensa freely to Government. The purpose of this is so that Governments can...
What has been going on? For the past 12 months, Deliver Change has trialled several ways to speak to and engage with schools - the aim being to have those schools sign up for the Educational Programme and a free AirSensa. Below are the conclusions. Stage 1 - Mass Emailing Time was spent researching and collecting contact details of key personal in schools...
Following the Healthy Air Campaign warnings that air pollution in Oxford is 5 times the legal limit in November 2015 - we were contacted by the City Council about increasing awareness, specifically in children. As such, Deliver Change will be delivering an educational programme in 6 schools around Oxford. This tailored programme will include an AirSensa unit for each school and presentations...
What has been going on? Following One Show coverage on BBC - greatest response was from communities outside of London, specifically Parish Councils. From this, a new audience was found. Communities have the same potential risks as large cities, e.g. heavy traffic, HGVs, construction sites, industry etc, but they do not have the political pull or financial support to do anything...
Air quality in Fitzrovia is some of the worst in the UK, with Tottenham Court Road being one of the top ten most polluted roads in London. As a direct response and as part of The Fitzrovia Partnership’s commitment to improving and maintaining the local public realm they have partnered with Treebox to bring a healthy and beautiful burst of green to The Avenue...
The Future Cities Catapult aims to accelerate urban ideas to market, to grow the economy and make cities better. Their work currently focuses on three core themes: promoting healthy cities, building resilience in urban infrastructure, and designing strategies to help cities adopt and finance smarter technologies. As such, they have purchased an AirSensa to go on the exterior of the...
It is our belief that you cannot properly manage what you do not sufficiently measure You can’t manage what you don’t measure, and today… Monitoring is either sparse & expensive (only 300 official stations in the UK), or temporally poor (historic averages only) resulting in spatial & temporal variability not being captured (e.g. ‘hot spots’). Therefore parameters (e.g. personal pollution exposure) are...
VelO2 was a public engagement initiative developed by Loop.pH in Taipei that advocated clean, healthy cities by drawing attention to the importance of active lifestyles and air quality in building sustainable smart cities. Deliver Change were luckily enough to be part of this amazing public installation by providing an AirSensa. The live data was then translated into seven different breathing rhythms...
The parish of Iver is situated in the Colne Valley Park, in the south-east corner of Buckinghamshire, close to the M4 and M25 interchange. Iver got in contact with Deliver Change due to concerns about noise and air pollution levels throughout the village for reasons including: Proximity to M4 and M25 interchange Proximity to Heathrow Airport Proximity to 4-5 large industrial estates which...
