Air & Noise

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Our team of industry professionals work collaboratively across the globe and harness the most up to date technology in the air and noise management sphere.

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GHD provides practical, scientific based air quality and noise management solutions. We consider sustainable practice and legislative demands on air and noise outcomes to help you reach your targets efficiently – to keep you ahead of the pack.

The right advice in air & noise can help the environment, improve your project success and reduce life cycle costs.

Services:

Emissions inventories
Emissions monitoring
Atmospheric dispersion modelling
Ambient air quality monitoring
Environmental Impact Assessment (Air and Noise)
Air quality policy
Emissions reduction
Industrial and mining noise assessment
Noise mitigation strategies
Building acoustic services
Road and rail acoustic assessment
Environmental noise monitoring
Environmental noise modelling
Integrated acoustics noise attenuation

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Air Monitoring in Western Australia

GHD conducted one of the most comprehensive ambient air monitoring programs ever to be undertaken by an Australian company, on the remote Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia.

The project, for Woodside Energy, on behalf of the North West Shelf Venture, involved GHD’s environmental team designing a program to monitor the ambient and occupational air quality around the Karratha gas plant and offshore facilities, particularly for benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX) emissions.

World’s Quietest Caterpillar Truck

GHD has won international acclaim for its scientifically engineered quiet Caterpillar truck. Developed to comply with stringent noise standards in the Hunter Valley, the trucks are 20 times quieter than an untreated truck.

GHD scientists used advanced acoustics technology to limit the noise emitted by the engine, fan, transmission and differential of the Caterpillar 789C off-highway trucks. Reducing the noise level of the trucks was important because of the proximity of the nearby town of Muswellbrook, just 6km away. The stringent noise standards are regarded globally as industry-leading for open cut coalmines.

World’s Quietest Truck

Mt Arthur Coal mine is a large open-cut mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.

To meet the most stringent noise limits for mining operations, GHD was commissioned by WesTrac (Caterpillar dealers for NSW/ACT and WA) to acoustically attenuate three Caterpillar 789C off-highway trucks.

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