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Nobody enjoys being woken from a deep and restful sleep, particularly if this involves being unceremoniously shaken from your resting place by large scale construction works ..

As acoustic consultants we are in the enviable position of seeing planning conditions from a number of Local Authorities throughout the country ..

It was half past midnight and dismally dark. The distant street lights were just bright enough to illuminate my breath and the tombstones to my left. It was bitterly cold and every so often ..

The industry has recognised for some time the difficulty of compliance with the Noise at Work Regulations. The British Entertainment and Discotheque Association Ltd (BEDA) produced guidelines for compliance ..

The existing acoustic laboratory at LMU consisted of a large reverberation chamber coupled onto an anechoic chamber. A transmission panel was present between the two chambers but ..

It is not every day that we are asked to investigate a noise problem inside a Welsh mountain, however this article will describe just that occurrence ..

“We want to build a nightclub next to the Sea Life Centre in Blackpool and wondered if you could predict the likely effect of the noise and vibration on the
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PDA Ltd was commissioned by GB Building Solutions to undertake the acoustic design of the new £5.25 million ‘Extreme Connexions’ action sports and youth advisory centre in Hemel Hempstead ..

PDA Ltd was commissioned by Galliford Try Limited to undertake the acoustic design of the new £25 million new stand and media and conference suite at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham ..

The Leisure Industry has long-suffered from self-generated noise, swimming pools and large multi-purpose halls being the prime culprits ..

For most companies the advent of an environmental noise pollution problem is both shocking and traumatic. Most people who fall foul of the Environmental Protection Act ..

The Wire manufacturing industry is inherently noisy with most machinery and plant emitting noise in the 95-105 dB(A) range ..

Industrial noise pollution is an ever growing problem and its management is centred around many pieces of legislation, standards, guidance documents, etc ..

Hospitals are not the first things that spring to mind when considering problems with noise and acoustics. Those of us who have been in-patients in the past may have had a poor nights sleep due to what seems like constant activity..

In our increasingly noise sensitive society, entertainment noise is an area of particular concern. The redevelopment boom of turning city centres into modern residential and cultural zones means that ..

Since the publication of Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) in 2003 and the incorporation of the document into Approved Document E (ADE) of the Building Regulations in 2006, there has been a requirement for schools to be designed and built to achieve ..

Over the years acoustics has gained a reputation as a black art with only a select few understanding its finer detail. The purpose of this guide is to simply explain the basic principles of acoustics and how these affect the average person ..

PDA Ltd was commissioned by Wilson Mason Architects Limited to undertake the acoustic design of a six storey research facility. The proposed facility consisted of 6 floors of laboratory space and a full height central Atrium Light Well with connected ..

Launched in 2000, Moneypenny leads the UK telephone answering service and outsourced switchboard market, looking after more calls for more businesses than any other company of its kind ..

BS 4142:2014 has just gone through the process of an amendment which is different to a revision, this difference caused some confusion during the consultation period. The BSI employs three main processes, revision, amendment, and corrigendum ..

By the time you read this, ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 should have been published, or at any rate is about to be published. It is notoriously difficult to predict exact publication dates for new ISO documents ..

“The series ISO 12913 on soundscape was developed in order to enable a broad international consensus and to provide a foundation for communication across disciplines and professions with an interest in soundscape ..