We develop strategies for a sustainable and healthy urban environment.
Outdoor Environmental Quality encompasses the environmental conditions in urban settings that bear a direct impact on the health and well-being of urban centres’ residents and visitors.
We offer a consulting service that is characterised by the integration of different parameters of environmental quality, underpinned by tools and knowledge in different domains and using an integrated working methodology. This approach facilitates the creation and design of innovative strategies and solutions adapted to each context.
The strategies allow thermal comfort (including microclimatic control), air quality and acoustic comfort to be measured, analysed and improved.
Thermal comfort
We have experience in mapping the human body’s thermal response to their surroundings and in analysing heat island effects in the design phase of urban buildings. The studies include different scenarios (climate, including climate change forecasts, and possible solutions to be adopted, both in terms of urban planning and materials and vegetation)
Air quality
As regards air quality, AIGUASOL offers a consulting service aimed at supporting local strategies to improve air quality, based on technical expertise and experience in monitoring systems, data analysis, the development of IoT platforms, as well as communication and public awareness projects.
Featured Projects
Towards local decarbonization: the energy transition in La Llacuna Energy Community
AIGUASOL, as part of BATEC, led the development of the strategy and feasibility plan for La Llacuna Energy Community (Anoia, Catalonia).
Aiguasol in the BIOCAFA project: Driving a Circular Bioeconomy Model in Terra Alta
We participate in the BIOCAFA project (led by the Bioenergy Cluster of Catalonia), bringing our expertise in the feasibility and business models of district heating networks.
AIGUASOL Drives Energy Community Development in Colombia’s Cesar Mining Corridor (Colombia)
AIGUASOL is participating in the Technical Assistance for the Development of Energy Communities in the Cesar Mining Corridor project, an initiative promoted by the World Bank and Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. The project aims to support a just energy transition in a region historically linked to coal mining.