From air source heat pumps and extractor fans to heavy industrial units and business parks, if you’re developing a new facility, item of plant or noise-generating apparatus, or amending your operational profile, then you’ll need to take steps to ensure that your operations won’t adversely impact on residents, businesses or community spaces in the local environment. If you employ staff who’ll be exposed to elevated noise levels during their daily duties, you’ll also need to take safeguarding steps in line with The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.

inacoustic’s industrial noise division is at the forefront of the sector in the United Kingdom. Owing to our years of in-house experience in producing noise assessments in compliance with BS 4142:2014+A1:2019, BS 6472-1:2008) (where vibration is an issue), Noise at Work Assessments and providing noise chapters for EIA, we’re well placed to ensure that your project meets the required standards in a cost-effective and pragmatic way.

Many of our clients involve us at the start of their projects so that we’re able to assess the noise-risk at concept stage, reduce noise impact through acoustic design and avoid the need for retrospective mitigation measures later in the project lifecycle. However, we’re also able to undertake environmental noise surveys, modelling and assessments for industrial projects at later stages of the planning process or on sites which are already operational.

Every industrial noise assessment is unique, and should be treated as such. If an installation is likely to cause an adverse impact, we’ll produce tailored mitigation, design, orientation and plant-specification solutions that’ll help our clients comply with the necessary requirements, and complete commissioning testing where required to demonstrate that noise levels predicted during modelling and assessment are achievable in the real world.

In some instances, after a robust assessment has been delivered, stakeholder concerns will also need to be dealt with before an industrial project will gain approval. Our senior team members pride themselves on their diplomatic, fact-based approach to noise-based objection handling, and have an enviable track-record of success in instances of local-authority-officer correspondence and formal hearings alike. Thanks to our hands-on approach, commercial awareness and attention to detail, your project is in good hands with inacoustic’s industrial noise division.