Noise

Define - Assess - Manage

Why EARES?

• Been in business for more than a decade. 
  
• Numerous happy return clients.
  
• Under-promise, over deliver policy.
  
• Always meeting deadlines – in time, within budget.
  
• Quality of work exceeding the expectations of clients.
• Professional service and reports allow for easier approval and public participation.
• With sufficient calibrated sound level analyzers/meters, we can run a number of projects in parallel. 
• All instruments are fitted with specialist imported wind shields.
• All instruments setup for unattended sound level measurements in all weather conditions. 

What we do?

• Providing Legal and Technical Review of noise studies in terms of legislation/guidelines such as GNR154 of 1992,  GNR320 of 2020, SANS 10328:2008.
  
• Ambient sound and noise level monitoring, at up to 10 locations simultaneously, up to a duration of 4-weeks.
  
• Statistical analysis of sound and noise level data.
  
• Noise audits and measurement reports.
  
• Defining of noise sources and their sound power emission characteristics, using actual measurements, existing databases, input from the engineering team or standards such as BS 5228-1:2009+A1:2014.
• Noise propagation modelling.
• Noise pollution control and noise abatement programs.
• Design of noise control and mitigation measures to minimize and manage noise impacts.
• Noise assessments for urban development, road and railway projects, industrial and mining activities and renewable energy.