Environmental Acoustics involves the assessment of how noise from a source such as industrial or entertainment activities travels outdoors and affects communities or sensitive uses. Planning processes for new development often requires assessment of environmental noise impacts both caused by, and affecting the proposal.

As such, complex environmental noise impact assessments require the acoustic consultant to have a good understanding of processes occurring within, and the requirements of other disciplines (eg. planning law, heritage, traffic engineering, proposal feasibility and construction).

The Client focused culture at Octave Acoustics means that we seek to address our brief from the Client’s perspective, striving to deliver solutions that achieve the required balance between competing requirements. We do this by actively working within the multi-disciplinary project team to understand and allow for key project priorities such as cost, planning, functional or aesthetic related requirements.