With a global network of more than 60 acoustic consultants, we provide evidence-based solutions for all aspects of acoustics, noise and vibration.
Acoustic design can improve the quality, health and safety of our environment. We do this by optimising material use and ensuring user comfort, privacy and functionality.
We begin by gaining a clear understanding of your acoustic expectations, for example privacy between offices, background noise level in an apartment or the reverberation time in an auditorium.
Our team has extensive experience across market sectors, providing acoustic design input from the earliest town planning stages through to completion and handover of buildings.
With in-depth knowledge of acoustic legislation and policy, we can provide practical, accurate and timely advice to developers and town planners.
We get involved at all stages of projects, from site selection and feasibility to town planning noise assessments, building design, certification testing and refurbishment of existing assets.
Our services
Our team focuses on successful acoustic outcomes across all project types and stages, from town planning and statutory approvals to design, construction, building operations and upgrades.
Town planning and compliance
Acoustic advice and preliminary studies are important in the early stages of a project to establish feasibility and submit noise and vibration impact assessments to local authorities.
- Noise control for compliance with national, state and local noise regulations and policies
- Road traffic, aircraft and rail noise and vibration control and modelling
- Major infrastructure planning
- Noise and vibration management plans for building demolition and construction.
New builds
Attention to the acoustic design of facades, floor constructions and central plant for new building projects reduces risks of issues at project completion and allows for efficient systems to be coordinated by the design team.
- Noise control for building services
- Facade design to minimise external noise intrusion from road traffic, aircraft, rail and commercial noise
- Internal partition design for acoustic privacy between sensitive spaces
- Sound and impact insulation of residential intertenancy walls and floors for compliance with building code
- Plant and machinery noise and vibration control.
Asset performance
Our acoustic team relishes the challenge of working with existing buildings, whether it be solving difficult noise transfer problems or reinventing older buildings into modern spaces with sympathetic acoustic upgrades.
- Acoustic assessments of new plant equipment installed as part of decarbonisation projects, such as hot water heat pumps
- Testing and investigation of acoustic issues in existing buildings
- Design for adaptive reuse of existing buildings
- Sympathetic acoustic upgrades to heritage buildings for modern tenants.
Interiors
Modern office spaces require high levels of amenity to encourage in-office working, combined with the increasing need for spaces for online meetings. We work with office tenants across sectors such as legal, banking, consulting, tech and government to optimise the acoustics of different working zones.
- Design of high-quality office interiors for appropriate privacy levels
- Spatial acoustic design of meeting and collaboration spaces for noise control and audio-visual systems
- Acoustic design, assessments and reporting for Green Star, WELL, LEED and other environmental rating systems.
Spaces for speech and performance
Design of spatial acoustics is essential for performance spaces, auditoria and lecture theatres to provide speech intelligibility, a sense of presence and a relationship between the performer and the audience.
- Acoustic design for performance spaces including auditoria, theatres and cinemas
- Acoustic design for spaces requiring speech intelligibility and privacy, including lecture theatres and training and meeting rooms
- Acoustic design of recording and broadcasting studios
- Integration of audio-visual equipment with room spatial acoustics.
Vibration
Vibration control in buildings is important to provide a comfortable environment for occupants, protect sensitive equipment and maintain structural integrity.
- Whole-building vibration isolation to reduce structure-borne noise and vibration intrusion
- Vibration control for building services and occupant activities
- Gymnasiums
- Rail noise and vibration studies
- Vibration impacts to sensitive equipment, for example in laboratories and hospitals.
AIHEAR®
Portable auralisation software
It can be difficult to make a decision on acoustic design when all you have to make the decision are decibel numbers in a report. AiHear allows you to hear different acoustic design options and make an informed decision to best suit your project. It’s portable so we can come to wherever you are; there’s no need to visit a specialist acoustic space.
Community consultation
On large infrastructure projects, consultation is key. AiHear can combine simple visual simulations with accurate acoustic playback wherever stakeholders are. This can provide reassurance and allow meaningful consultation on effects and mitigations.
Product features
- Playback through headphones with 3D visuals
- Experience noise scenarios in indoor or outdoor environments
- Listen to large and small rooms with different acoustic materials, background noise and conversations
- Simulate outdoor noise sources such as road, rail, aircraft and major plant equipment
- Import 360-degree panoramic photos and videos for photo-realistic presentations
- Trace out real rooms using augmented reality and modify acoustic properties in real time
- Connect multiple devices to a single group presentation
- Laboratory-calibrated audio output through selected headphone models.
