At GHD, our acoustic consultants have extensive experience in providing independent advice, assisting clients to navigate the legislative process, to identify operational constraints and opportunities associated with their venue. We aim to assist our clients to achieve compliant, well-managed and regulated licensed premises and cafes.
Acoustic assessments provided by GHD vary in scope depending upon the needs of the client, the nature of the proposed development or altered management action, and legislative requirements.
As the population increases, the need for child care centres becomes more important. It is becoming common place for many of these child care centres to be located within residential areas and close to sensitive receivers. As such, acoustic assessments are required by councils throughout the greater Sydney area to deal with the noise emission associated with the operation of child care centres.
GHD can provide advice for clients seeking to operate a child care centre to reduce noise emissions from the operation of the child care centre and achieve compliance with council regulations.
It is commonplace in for newly constructed gyms and lifestyle fitness commercial operators to share common partitions or separated walls with adjacent sensitive residential or commercial receivers. When music, equipment and weights are part of the scenario, it is critical to ensure any operations are acoustically assessed to identify and mitigate against any offensive noise impacts.
GHD has provided assessment and advice for many gyms and lifestyle operators ensuring compliance with the local and legislative acoustic operational requirements; often situated near adjacent sensitive receivers.
Noise in a building can significantly affect how it functions and the general wellbeing of occupants. It is important that potential noise issues be identified and addressed to meet client expectations, contractual and legislative requirements, and to avoid the potentially substantial expenses associated with noise control retrofits.
GHD provides a range of building acoustic services for all types of developments from individual dwellings to large scale residential, childcare, commercial, mixed-used developments, hotel, industrial, Defence, health and educational facilities. Our acoustic engineers have the ability to guide and assist architects and developers throughout the entire design process to achieve the design requirements.
Management of large scale music events and festivals is critical to ensure that they are run in a safe and legal way. Impacts on local surrounding communities needs to be managed so that their acoustic impact can be minimized as much as possible. GHD can provide noise assessments, management plans and event noise monitoring in order to strategically manage the impacts of such events to adjacent sensitive stakeholders in an appropriate manner.
- Attended noise measurements of subject noise
- Assessment of offensiveness and intrusiveness
- Preparation of a letter or report for lodgement to council
- Provision of management practices and mitigation measures for offensive noise resolution
Mechanical services noise can be a major issue in both residential and commercial premises. Plant rooms, lift shafts, air-conditioning and ventilation systems all have the potential to generate significant airborne and structure-borne noise within buildings. GHD can review drawings and assess noise and vibration impact from the mechanical services (including any rooftop plant and equipment). This assessment includes any internal and external noise and vibration impact. Mitigation measures will also be provided to help achieve acoustic compliance with the internal acoustic criteria, EPA and other statutory requirements. Assessment of mechanical services will also include lift noise and vibration assessment.
