About us
Keane & Gray was founded by Dr Christine McHugh to provide services in air quality and odour to clients. Christine has over 25 years’ experience in the field during which time she has led the UK air quality team at Ove Arup & Partners Ltd and Amec Foster Wheeler’s team (South).
She has particular expertise in modelling, forecasting and alerting, and airport air quality, having provided air quality and carbon studies for several major UK airports. Christine spent 20 years with CERC Ltd providing modelling expertise and developing models including the world-leading ADMS models and forecasting and alerting systems including those for Beijing and London (airTEXT). She has provided planning and other technical support to the Greater London Authority and Transport for London, developing aspects of the new London Local Air Quality Management regime, and leading a comparison of air quality in London with air quality in cities around the world.
Christine provided expertise internationally, as the EU expert on air quality in the EU/China Liaoning Integrated Environment Programme and on collaborative international projects or the European Space Agency, EU 7th Framework, and the European Commission. She has provided training internationally to air quality professionals.
Selected publications:
- PSDH Air Quality Modelling of Heathrow Airport
- Comparison of air quality in London with air quality in cities around the world
- Comparison of air quality in London with air quality in cities around the world
- Proceeding of the 11th Harmonisation Conference
- AWMA paper comparing ADMS and AERMOD models treatment of terrain
- AWMA conference paper comparing the ADMS and AERMOD models meteorological pre-processors
- IJEP abstract on modelling from the city scale to the local scale
- CARBONES geo-portal for reanalysis of global carbon fluxes
- Report on the 2008 Beijing Olympics air quality forecasting system