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A conversation with Chris Rush

Chris is a Director and air quality consultant lead at Hoare Lea, an award-winning, multi-discipline engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists.


Part of the Tetra Tech Group, a global provider of environmentally focused consulting and engineering services, and part of its renowned Tetra Tech High-Performance Buildings Group.


Chris is focused on promoting air quality's crucial health and well-being role in our built environment and the opportunity that buildings play as part of this.

Through his involvement as chair of the professional body for air quality in the UK – the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM), vice chair of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Air Quality Working Group and council member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) he aims to improve and is passionate about harnessing the value of air quality through the design and operation of buildings.

He is a Chartered Environmentalist, a Member of the Institute of Acoustics, a Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, a Member of the IES as well as Full Member of the IAQM.

Chris is a thought leader in this field, and the impact he and large consultancy practices play in moving the needle, not just with customers but internally in the cross pollination of ideas and idials, is enormous.

He is at the vanguard of air quality in the built environment not just through Hoare lea but also in the development and growth of the IAQM.

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Hoare Lea
Tetra Tech
Institute of Air Quality Management
Institute of Environmental Science

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