Justification of the Choice of the Site for Construction Projects on the Basis of the Atmospheric Air Monitoring

Abstract

A research of approaches with the purpose of the assessment of the impact of environmental regulations on the site selection for construction is presented in this paper. The approaches of the environmental air monitoring in Russia and abroad, and particularly the collection and interpretation of data are also studied. The authors obtained data archives of the environmental air monitoring. This data is interpreted using the Russian method (maximum permissible concentration) and the main foreign one (air quality index). Discrepancies in the interpretation of the environmental air monitoring data are found. In many cases, according to the Russian method, the air quality was considered acceptable but the foreign methodology recommends to limit a long-term outdoor presence of citizens from the risk groups. The deficiencies of the Russian standards in the environmental air monitoring are found and described in the paper. Improvements to the Russian methodology are also proposed by authors.