Claire Nurcombe

Sector: Aeronautic construction

Main Responsibilities
Cabin air quality specialist including crew and passenger health and comfort strategy
Airbus focal point for ASHRAE & AECMA-STAN air quality standards committees
Technical chairman of EC funded project ICE (Ideal Cabin Environment)
Lead engineer for Ozone and VOC Converters for SA, LR, A380, A400M and A350
Knowledge Management Champion for EYV

As cabin air quality specialist I have been involved in leading internal development projects, covering current and future programmes, as well as external research projects concerning the cabin environment and health and comfort issues. I have additionally been focal point for cabin air quality standards and guideline committees and have been involved in preparing strategy documents for these subjects.
I have served on standards committees preparing cabin air quality standards, both in the US (member of ASHRAE SPC161) and EC (CabinAir in association with AECMA-STAN draft prEN4618). These committees involved negotiations with airworthiness authorities, other aircraft manufacturers, airlines, crew unions and equipment suppliers.
I am additionally Technical Chairman for the EC funded project ICE. This requires coordinating the activities of the participating organisations and companies – the ICE consortium consists of 15 partners including regulatory bodies, research institutions and universities.
As lead engineer for the Ozone Converter I have coordinated developments for A380 and A400M (including support for specific certification issues) as well as development of a combined VOC/Ozone Converter for A350, A380, SA and LR fleets. For my work on the combined converter I won a 2005 Airbus Corporate Award for Excellence (Customer Focus).

Sector: Aeronautic construction

Main Responsibilities
Special responsibility for cabin air quality and passenger comfort issues
Project manager for NBC activities (homeland security)
Trouble-shooting and technical follow up to operators

Sector: Aeronautic construction