
Noise Assessments – March to June 2020 – Recent Work
Our work these past few months in conducting noise assessments and building acoustic design all over the UK and beyond.
COVID-19:
We remain open, providing a full range of noise assessment and building acoustic design services
COVID-19:
We remain open, providing a full range of noise assessment and building acoustic design services
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyones working life here in the UK, given the current lockdown measures. And it’s no different for us acoustic consultants. One of our core services to support planning applications for new developments is a noise impact assessment. And 90% of the time, this involves a noise survey conducted at the site.
Now maybe technically we could get to site to do a survey, as some would say it’s work that could not be done at home. But for safety, we’re not conducting site visits at the moment. Fortunately, we can still produce noise impact assessments without a noise survey. For the forseeable future, most local planning authorities and environmental health officers are willing to accept an approach based on noise modelling. And this is exactly what we’ve been doing.
A comprehensive 3D noise map model can be produced for sites, with the model parameters configured to predict noise levels based on several sources of information:
This may be tricky for developments in rural locations away from transportation noise… but these sites often don’t need a noise assessment anyway. In busy, city centre or urban locations, this methodology works just fine.
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Our work these past few months in conducting noise assessments and building acoustic design all over the UK and beyond.
Do you think our new noise surveying tripod is big enough? Noise surveys across the UK from our Bristol and London offices
How do we quantify sound and noise? What is a decibel? What is an A-weighting? What on earth is the subjective difference between 50 dB and 60 dB?
Whilst we’re in the COVID-19 lockdown and get out for noise surveys right now, we’ve still decided to invest in another set of noise surveying equipment
BS8233 and ProPG residential noise assessments and noise surveys residential developments across the UK from our Bristol and London offices.
Noise surveys and assessments for industrial noise in accordance with BS 4142:2014. Kitchen extracts, AHU, MVHR, chillers… to large scale industrial facilites
Planning application noise assessments and environmental impact assessments. Noise experts offering comprehensive and robust noise assessments for planning.
Noise survey reports, acoustic surveys and noise assessments at a competitive price, to the highest quality. Noise surveys to BS8233, BS4142, BB93, BS5528, ProPG, BS7445, NPPF…
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noise surveys and noise assessments all over the place