South Yorkshire
Acoustic consultants in Sheffield.
A working manufacturing city with a national park inside the boundary, which produces an unusually wide range of background conditions.
The local picture
What we deal with in Sheffield.
Sheffield still has real manufacturing, concentrated along the Don valley and the Lower Don corridor, and it sits close to residential areas. Assessments for those operations, and for residential schemes proposed near them, are the most technically demanding work in the city, because the sources are varied, frequently tonal and often continuous.
At the other extreme, a third of the city lies inside the Peak District National Park. Night-time background levels there are among the lowest we measure anywhere, which changes the answer for any plant assessment: BS 4142 compares against background, and there is almost none.
The city also has a very large purpose-built student accommodation stock. Those schemes combine high-density residential with city-centre noise and internal noise transfer between rooms, so they usually need both a planning-stage assessment and a considered sound insulation strategy.
Typical instructions
Work that comes up here.
Taken from the job book rather than a service list. If yours is not on it, it is still likely to be routine. Send the wording and we will say so.
- BS 4142 assessments for manufacturing and metals processing
- Residential and student accommodation noise assessments in the city centre
- Plant and heat pump assessments in the Peak District fringe, against very low background
- Sound insulation testing for conversions and new build
- Entertainment noise assessment for venues and licensed premises
Local detail
We read your checklist before we price it.
Validation requirements vary between authorities and between applications. We read the one for yours before quoting, so the scope matches what is being asked for rather than what is usually asked for.
- Determined bySheffield City Council
- CountySouth Yorkshire
- Getting to siteAbout an hour and a quarter from Manchester.
- InstrumentationClass 1, calibrated and certificated
- Fee basisFixed, agreed before we start
- Report turnaroundFive working days from survey
Travel is our problem, not yours. Most surveys use unattended monitoring, so the distance to site affects our costs rather than your programme, and the fee is fixed either way.
What you can instruct
Services available in Sheffield.
Noise Surveys
Baseline and environmental monitoring, attended or unattended.
Learn moreNoise Impact Assessments
BS 4142, BS 8233 and ProPG assessments that planning officers accept.
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Plant Noise
ASHPs, chillers, kitchen extract and refrigeration, assessed against background.
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BREEAM & WELL Acoustics
Design review, testing and assessor-ready evidence for Hea 05 and Pol 05.
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Acoustic Design
Practical input at every RIBA stage: specifications contractors can build from.
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Noise at Work
HSE-compliant workplace assessments under the 2005 Regulations.
Learn moreNot sure which standard applies to your condition? The BS 5228, Approved Document E, ProPG references explain what each one asks for, or send us the letter and we will tell you.
Questions
Sheffield: common questions.
Do you cover the Peak District part of Sheffield?
Yes. It is worth flagging early if your site is inside the National Park, because both the background sound levels and the planning considerations are different from the rest of the city.
Do you assess student accommodation schemes?
Regularly. They need the external assessment for planning and a sound insulation strategy for internal transfer between rooms and from circulation space, and the second is usually the one that causes trouble later if it is left until construction.
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