Building Acoustic Design
The BAP Acoustics team provides a comprehensive acoustic design service for a wide range of building types, including residential, educational, healthcare, commercial, cultural, arts buildings, auditoria and studios, operating in both the public and private sectors. We provide services from brief development and concept design through to the construction stage and appraisal of the completed building. We undertake noise surveys on sites, advise on the sound insulation of the building envelope and internal divisions and on the selection and distribution of sound absorbing finishes. We also advise on the control of noise from building
services equipment. In addition, we can undertake a wide range of acoustic testing in the completed building to demonstrate compliance with project requirements.
Reverberation time is the principal parameter that controls the acoustics within a room and the
subsequent level of speech intelligibility and musical clarity.
Optimizing acoustics in theatres, concert halls, auditoria, and other large spaces presents many challenges.
The National Building Code, BC Building Code and the Vancouver Building Bylaw require minimum standards of sound insulation between dwellings. Although not controlled by under Building Code, we can measure impact sound insulation to determine the AIIC (Apparent Impact Insulation Class)
Frequently require acoustic reports to accompany Rezoning,
Development or Building Permit applications for residential
development.
We can provide design input to limit vibration transmission
from exterior sources including road and rail as well as mechanical and electrical equipment to building interiors.
The BAP Acoustics team advises clients at both the base
building design and tenant improvement stages of
commercial property construction
A public building’s functional success largely hinges on incorporating comprehensive acoustic design from the outset of its planning.
Vibration isolation of building services equipment such as airhandling equipment, pumps, transformers and emergency
generators promotes lower levels of background noise in
buildings. We can design vibration isolation systems to reduce structure-borne noise from building services equipment
Our noise control work involves controlling noise from
exterior sources such as industrial sources, outdoor noise
events e.g. wedding and outdoor concerts, transportation
noise sources, sporting activities including shooting ranges
and gun clubs.
Our industrial noise work has included the monitoring,
assessment and control of industrial noise from a wide
variety of sources e.g. wood mills and processing facilities,
pump stations, power houses, factories, natural gas stations,
port terminals etc.
We have undertaken numerous noise assessments for controlling noise from road, rail and air traffic to residential and other noise-sensitive development sites.
Noise from outdoor shooting ranges can adversely impact
local communities.