noise emissions Articles
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Position Paper on the European Strategies and Priorities for Railway Noise Abatement
Untitled Document Executive Summary Railway noise can be reduced considerably in the near future The Green Paper Future Noise Policy of November 1996 [11] by the European Commission states that the public's main criticism of rail transport is the excessive noise level. This problem will be exacerbated by the modal shift from road and air ...
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Luas Construction - Case Study
The Client The Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) build and maintain Dublin’s light rail transit system. The latest rail project to be undertaken is the Luas Cross City Project. This extension of Dublin’s Luas system will link up existing lines and bring the tram service to new areas of the city. This 5 year project involves a number of construction phases in the city centre and ...
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Case study - Nor848A Acoustic Camera Metro station in Taipei, Taiwan
After the construction of the elevated sky train, too high noise levels were appearing under the line and local communities were complaining. Therefore acoustic absorbing panels were mounted under the metro line at critical sites in order to reduce noise emission. To document the effect of the absorbers a Norsonic Nor848A 1.0 meter acoustic camera was setup for recording and reporting on the ...
By Norsonic AS
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Casella BOUNDARY Guardian helps to control noise and dust on major London construction project - Case Study
Casella‘s BOUNDARY Guardian is helping to ensure noise compliance and control of air quality at BSkyB’s campus redevelopment site, bringing peace of mind to site operators, the client and the local community. The BOUNDARY Guardian is a system for web-based remote monitoring of noise and/or dust emissions that ensures compliance with regulatory limits an essential factor in ...
By Casella
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Noisy sites setting alarm bells ringing?
Industrial sites such as refineries and factories will always be noisy, but with millions of people across the world occupationally exposed to hazardous noise, and noise-related hearing loss listed as one of the most prevalent occupational health concerns, what can be done about it? Arne Berndt, owner / adviser at SoundPLAN GmbH and SoundPLAN International LLC – a market leader in sound and ...
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Molding a sounder, safer future for foundries
Jochen Schaal, managing director of SoundPLAN GmbH, and Miguel Ángel Mesa of SoundPLAN Latinoamérica outlines sustainable steps on our road to recoveryTwo years on from the outbreak of COVID and the first lockdown, optimism is in the air and industries are rebuilding. Statistics from Associação Brasileira de Fundição (ABIFA) indicate that the foundry sector in Brazil employed 62,944 people at the ...
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Smart environmental solutions for a changing chemical landscape
Jochen Schaal, managing director of SoundPLAN GmbH and Michel Rosmolen, director of SoundPLAN Asia outline opportunities for the sector to soundly improve our environment Like many sectors, the chemical industry within India and globally, is adapting to a number of challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, and resulting shortages in materials and economic turbulence, has hit industries hard. There is ...
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Making improvements to noise control in production plants
Jochen Schaal, managing director of SoundPLAN GmbH and Michel Rosmolen, director of SoundPLAN Asia, outline opportunities for the sector to soundly improve our environment Manufacturing is one of the high growth sectors in India. The India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) reports that the country’s ranking, in terms of most sought after manufacturing destination in the world, has climbed to ...
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Noise at Work – an employers` responsibility?
In the last few months, we have featured the 10th anniversary of the Noise at Work Regulations (2005) at length in this blog. In fact, the Regulations are at the heart of everything that we do as a company and the key messages behind them are as relevant now as they were 10 years ago. Under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005), it is the employers' responsibility to eliminate or ...
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Find your Cadence: Noise monitoring within everyone’s reach
We’ve expanded Cadence to revolutionise the way you monitor and control noise pollution. A seamless conduit that connects all your Acoem noise monitoring instruments in one user-friendly ecosystem, Cadence gives you the power to transform your environmental data into actionable insights in real ...
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Environmental Noise - Case Study
The Client Dublin City Council are responsible for the running of Dublin city. Council staff manage all areas of city governance including planning, transportation and the environment. Part of these duties include measuring and managing environmental noise throughout the city and minimising exposure to noise pollution for Dublin’s 525,000 residents. The city’s environmental team ...
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Vehicle–road interaction for interior noise measurement and evaluation
Nowadays, one of the most valuable criteria of vehicle quality assessment is based on acoustic emission levels. A vehicle is judged comfortable depending on the noise levels transmitted inside. Consequently, there is a general attention to the design criteria aimed at improving the structural acoustic behaviour, to comply with the increasingly restrictive ergonomic standard. Therefore, it is ...
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HORIBA Mechatronics Product Lines
HORIBA has several decades of experience in providing solutions for automotive test systems. We have focused on testing components of the vehicle powertrain including the engine, transmission, clutch, torque converter, axles or brakes up to the complete vehicle. In all cases the missing parts of the vehicle and its environment is replaced by a system able to reproduce the load the specimen would ...
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