Sectors
Residential
Noise Harvest offers an affordable way to assist your residential project from start to finish.
With the upcoming changes to planning laws (white paper ‘Planning for the future’ here) it will be important to take advantage of the new easier process. Whilst the new laws will make it easier be granted planning the decision will be based on data making a good noise surveys still important.
Educational
If you are planning an extension to your school or building a new one it is vitally important to get the right acoustic information. Studies have proven that excessive noise effects concentration and children’s learning.
School buildings are designed to Building bulletin 93 (BB93), which includes primary and secondary schools, but many FE and HE buildings use it as a guide.
Health Care
Concertation, speech intelligibility are vital for medical staff, whilst the Acoustic comfort is also vital for the recovery of patients. All of these are affected by acoustic design of the health care building whether it is a new health clinic or a new hospital basing the design on quality acoustic information is important.
Industrial
Most new industrial facilities will generate noise. A BS 4142 assessment maybe required to prove that noise will not cause a problem. Noise Harvest can provide a full BS 4142 assessment to help your new industry venture be granted permission.
Offices
Employees comfort is important. The correct acoustics in an office improves productivity and will could help to encourage employees to enjoy there working environment. Most office layouts are open plan, making the acoustic design of the space harder but not impossible.
