Author: timgreen

Tim was in Dublin on the 19th of March to run a training day considering the practical application and delivery of reports following guidance within ProPG.

The training on ProPG: Planning and Noise – applying it in practice, was given members of the Association of Acoustic Consultants of Ireland (AACI).

The day started with an overview of the guidance followed by a session of his current experience of applying the guidance and style of reporting formats. This was further supported by case studies.

The day was made all the more enjoyable by the warm welcome, and good company, of the AACI members

Tim at the launch of ProPG – Professional Practice Guidance on Planning and Noise. The launch is in Birmingham. ProPG has been produced to provide practitioners with guidance on a recommended approach to the management of noise within the planning system in England.

Read more about ProPG – Professional Practice Guidance on Planning and Noise

Tim presents ‘Mixing the Spill – acousticians view of a music balancers’ lot’ to the Midlands Branch of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA), at the University of Derby tonight.

Tim’s talk will explain how the physical choices of layout and screening are interrelated with the differing microphone responses and electro-acoustic options on the mixing desk. This will be illuminated using the acousticians’ vocabulary of single reflections, barriers, frequency response, filters, compression and levels. His presentation will also aim to demonstrate that when the sounds are combined on the mixing desk there appears to be an interesting twist on the effects of masking that may explain a practice that helps clarity within the mix.

TGSacoustics helps to clarify the decision to grant planning consent. The Inspector wrote that “The evidence before me is more extensive and objective than that available to the Inspector in 2015”.

Full report: http://democracy.merthyr.gov.uk/documents/s34562/P160010.pdf

Tim gains his MSc in Applied Acoustics with distinction

Presentation to the 2016 National conference of the IOA of his thesis “A Measurement Method for Rating the Daytime Noise Impact of Church Bells’.

Abstract:

The ringing of church bells has always been intended to be an effective form of communication. This can be the call to prayer, as timekeeping and for other occasions. The increase in development within an already compact urban environment has potential for daytime complaints. The ringing of bells to call the parish to public worship is deemed to have valid defence to action of private nuisance and the impact of chimes at night can be managed by use of current measurement methods. However, there is no recognised assessment methodology or criteria for assessing the impact of daytime ringing for other occasions. Existing guidance and standards provide methodologies for assessing the impact of sounds but normally as a negative contribution to the sound environment. Bells however, may be argued as being music and a distinction between music and noise can be drawn. In rating the measurement of bells by subjective factors, careful consideration is given to the difference between generic subjective factors and those of individual context. Three existing measurement processes are assessed for their appropriateness to the measurement of church bells. The relationship between all three is found to be essential in generating a generic figure for adapting the absolute measured figures and the threshold to which the modified figure can then be related. This is tested in a real world location in conjunction with a social survey.

Acknowledging the limitations of the study, these results are combined into a draft measurement and rating method for the daytime ringing of church bells.

Tim appointed as Associate Lecturer in Acoustics at The University of Derby. Teaching on the IOA Diploma, Short Course and the underlying physics for under graduate foundation courses