Construction Noise and Vibration
Construction noise and vibration
Building and demolition projects need to manage construction noise and vibration carefully. Contractors are under pressure to meet approval conditions, keep communities informed, and protect sensitive buildings. The work can’t slow down, and you can’t blow the budget. At Resonate, our expert acoustic consults help predict, plan and monitor construction noise and vibration. We give you confidence in compliance so you can focus on the work at hand.
We deliver construction noise services nationwide from offices in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, in both terrestrial and marine environments. Our team has supported projects including the Sydney Gateway Project, the Adelaide Festival Plaza redevelopment, the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment, the Old Royal Adelaide Hospital (Lot Fourteen) works, the Torrens Road to River Torrens Project, the Darlington Upgrade, Canberra Airport and the Western Roads Upgrade.
Our construction noise and vibration services
- Construction noise and vibration impact assessments (CNVIA) and management plans (CNVMP)
- Noise and vibration modelling and prediction, including out of hours works assessments
- Noise and vibration monitoring, short or long term, with live alerts and automated reporting
- Building condition and heritage vibration assessments, including marine structures
- Mitigation design and management measures
- Community and stakeholder consultation
- Environmental approvals negotiation and advisory
- Advanced signal processing and custom measurement systems
- Peer review of CNVMP/CNVIA, expert evidence and research
SoundSite: real-time construction noise prediction for your site team
Construction plans change. Equipment gets swapped, work locations move, and out of hours approvals arise at short notice. Traditional acoustic consultants need to be remodel and re-assess every minor adjustment, putting strain on your program and budget.
Resonate developed SoundSite to rapidly address construction noise and vibration for real world projects. With SoundSite, your team has access to an interactive 3D noise model of your project to test changes directly. Add or move plant, adjust work locations and hours, and see updated predictions and management requirements in real time. Predictions retain the industry standard accuracy (ISO 9613-2) of the original model, accounting for topography, buildings and noise barriers. SoundSite automatically generates an updated assessment reports for every scenario, so you can get back on the job with confidence.
Contact us or visit the SoundSite website to get started developing a noise and vibration model for your construction project today.
Protecting heritage buildings and structures
Works near heritage places carry a specific risk: vibration damage to structures that cannot be replaced. Heritage authorities and asset owners need evidence that impacts will stay within safe limits before works can proceed.
Our team can establish specific vibration assessment criteria for heritage structures and monitor the proposed works against them. Our vibration monitoring technology can be deployed continuously and provide live alerts, so exceedances can be addressed immediately rather than discovered afterwards. This capability extends to marine structures, including heritage listed jetties, wharves and shipwrecks, where we draw on our structural dynamics and underwater teams to set and verify safe limits.
Our heritage experience includes vibration monitoring to protect the Keith Haring Mural in Melbourne during nearby works and the 100 Queen Street Heritage Bank refurbishment, alongside demolition and construction monitoring at sensitive sites such as the Old Royal Adelaide Hospital and Port Stanvac Refinery.
Vibration sensitive facilities
Not all vibration risk is structural. Hospitals, research facilities and laboratories are full of sensitive equipment and activities that get disrupted at vibration levels far below any damage threshold: operating theatres, medical imaging suites, electron microscopes, precision instruments and bioresources. Construction near these facilities needs to adhere to noise & vibration criteria that account for the sensitive equipment and activities, not just the building structure.
We establish facility-specific vibration criteria, assess construction methodologies against them, and provide continuous monitoring with alerts during works. Our experience includes projects for the Elekta Unity MR-Linac at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney, the University of Melbourne Bio21 precinct, the Parkville Precinct and the University of Wollongong Molecular Horizons building.
Equipment hire
Not every project needs a consultant on site. Sometimes you simply need reliable monitoring equipment, configured correctly and delivered quickly, so your team can stay compliant or respond to complaints.
Resonate Consultants maintains an inventory of equipment for attended and unattended noise and vibration monitoring. We supply instruments as standalone units or with telemetered systems that provide email and SMS alerts and automated reporting. With an extensive network of equipment hire partners, we can extend to fulfil your equipment needs for construction projects great and small.
The benefit of hiring from a consultancy rather than a general hire company is what sits behind the instrument. The equipment is the same calibrated instrumentation we deploy on major infrastructure projects, it arrives configured for your specific criteria, and our consultants are available to help interpret the data if a result needs explaining. You can scale from a single logger to a project-wide monitoring network without changing supplier.
Our acoustic consulting team have been involved in many projects, a few are listed below:
- University of Sydney, Engineering Technology Precinct Stage 1 (NSW)
- Keith Haring Mural, heritage vibration monitoring (VIC)
- B-Line bus network upgrade, Northern Beaches (NSW)
- Foxground and Berry bypass (NSW)
- Adelaide Festival Plaza demolition/construction works (SA)
- Old Royal Adelaide Hospital (Lot Fourteen site) (SA)
- Port Stanvac Refinery Demolition (SA)
- Adelaide Oval Redevelopment (SA)
- Torrens Road to River Torrens Project (SA)
- Northern Connector Project (SA)
- Torrens Junction Grade Separation Upgrade (SA)
- Darlington Upgrade Project (SA)
- Canberra Airport (ACT)
- Western Roads Upgrade (VIC)
- 100 Queen St, Heritage Bank refurbishment (VIC)
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Vibration Damage in Construction
View this video to see the vibration damage caused by an 18 tonne pad foot roller.
For your vibration and acoustic needs in construction, Resonate Consultants is your reliable hand. Let’s discuss.