ACOUSTICAL  -  ACOUSTIC  -  NOISE  -  VIBRATION
INDEPENDENT  ACCREDITED  CONSULTANTS
( PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS )

With our comprehensive academic qualifications coupled with extensive practical engineering experience and technical skills, and with our all-inclusive, world-class, specialist measuring equipment and software, we will find effective solutions to essentially any noise problems.

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PCCD provides services relating to measurement, assessment and control of noise and vibration for a broad range of clients: from private individuals to large industry. Our clients include:

1.   SMALL and LARGE INDUSTRIES that require:

• an approval from the EPA or local council for a new industrial operation or for modification of an existing industrial operation;
• a verification of compliance with pollution control approval and/or licence conditions;
• a pollution reduction program (PRP);
• a voluntary (confidential, non-incriminatory) environmental audit;
• a comprehensive (all-inclusive) occupational noise survey;
• to reduce emission of excessive noise;
• to install a new pollution control system.

2.   ARCHITECTS, TOWN PLANNERS and LAND DEVELOPERS, who need:

• an assessment of road, rail and/or air traffic noise, and ground vibration affecting proposed residential sites;
• a certification of compliance with Australian/New Zealand Standard: Acoustics - Recommended design sound levels and reverberation times for building interiors (AS/NZS 2107:2000) and/or with Building Code of Australia (BCA);
• an Environmental Impact Statement [or its part(s), specialist reports, such as a noise or vibration assessment], for an industrial development.

3.   OFFICE, HOTEL and APARTMENT MANAGERS, and BUILDERS who need to know:

• how to reduce noise from building services (air-conditioners, ventilation fans, pumps, cooling towers, emergency generators);
  
• the size, structure and position of an effective noise control barrier (timber, brick or acrylic walls);
• through which elements of a building the noise penetrates into a room (measurements of the sound intensity over walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors).

4.    PUBS, NIGHT-CLUBS and DISCOTHÈQUES that need to resolve their noise problem by:

• modification/improvement of the building (pinpointing noise "leaks" by measurements the sound intensity;
• effective noise control at the mixing desk.

5.    PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS whose residences are exposed to excessive:

• aircraft, railway and/or road traffic noise;
• noise from neighbours' air-conditioners or swimming pool and/or spa pumps.

 

Some of our clients