The Air Quality Collective
We work with a wide range of clients from government agencies to businesses to community groups, educators and curious individuals.
We bridge the gaps between data, information and wisdom to make a real difference in the real world.
We innovate to improve air quality in NZ, Australia and beyond.
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Current and recent projects
Smart Home Air Quality System
-What's the Issue? The air in your home can be contaminated from both outside and within. It may be smoke from wood-fires, rural burning, or bushfires. It might be dust or chemicals from industry, or particulates from trucks. But it could also be viruses, excess...
Smoke in the Alexandra-Clyde Basin
Through 2025 The Air Quality Collective is working with Otago Regional Council to find out more about the contribution of open burning to smoke in the air in the Alexandra-Clyde Basin. What’s the issue? During winter, smoke from home heating has long been known to...
AirGrid: Sensor grids to map airborne particulate matter across towns and cities
To create a map of air quality across a town or city you used to have spend significant resources setting up and maintaining a sparse air quality monitoring network and then apply uncertain models which rely on emissions data you don’t usually have. But gone are the...
Recent blog posts
Latest news and blogs
MBIE supports AQC to collaborate with German Climate Scientists
We are very happy to announce that the Air Quality Collective along with our colleagues at the University of Canterbury have been awarded $415,000 by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Strategic Catalyst fund for a project called “Supporting...
Portable air cleaners are great, but they could be better
Portable air cleaners – by which I mean domestic appliances that use a fan to pass air over a HEPA filter and are sometimes referred to as PACs – often claim to remove 99.9% of bad stuff (viruses, smoke, dust) from the air. If that were true, why are we all not using...
Air Quality in New Zealand: The Reality Behind the Numbers
The recently released IQAir report (2024 IQAir World Air Quality Report | IQAir,) has highlighted New Zealand as one of the few countries meeting WHO air quality standards. However, this paints an incomplete picture. Air pollution remains one of the greatest...