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Method and assessment criteria
The noise and vibration assessment was undertaken in accordance with:
British Standard BS 7385-2:1993 Evaluation and measurement for vibration in
buildings. Guide to damage levels from groundborne vibration (British
Standards Institution, 1993)
Industrial Noise Policy (INP) (EPA, 2000)
Environmental Noise Management Manual (Roads and Maritime, 2001)
Interim Construction Noise Guidelines (ICNG) (DECC, 2009)
Australian Standard AS 2187.2-2006 Explosives – Storage and Use – Part 2:
Use of Explosives (Standards Australia, 2006)
Accessing Vibration: A Technical Guideline (Department of Environmental and
Conservation, 2006)
Environmental Noise Management, Assessing Vibration: A Technical Guideline
(DECC, 2006)
Road Noise Policy (RNP) (Roads and Maritime, 2011).
The assessment:
Identified noise and vibration sensitive receivers within the study area
Determined the background noise levels within the study area
Predicted how construction work and traffic would impact on noise and
vibration-sensitive receivers compared to the existing conditions
Predicted how operational traffic noise would impact on noise sensitive
receivers compared to the existing conditions
Identified those adverse impacts that would need safeguarding or managing
under the proposal.
Noise monitoring
Noise monitoring data were used to characterise the study area’s existing ambient
noise environment (refer to section 6.2.3) and to establish NMLs and goals.
Short-term attended noise measurements
Short-term attended noise monitoring data were collected to describe the likely
average maximum noise levels within the study area. Data were collected over a
15-minute period at 19 receiver-locations across the city centre in September 2014;
supplementing data previously collected at three monitoring locations (refer to
Appendix D for further details). The monitoring locations were considered
representative of ambient conditions in a given location in the study area. The data
were collected both during the day and at night. Table 3 in Appendix D provides a full
list of the monitoring locations and their distance to the nearest adjacent receiver.
Long-term unattended noise measurements
The above short-term data were supplemented by long-term unattended noise
monitoring data used to describe the average and maximum noise levels over a
24-hour period. Figure 6-1 shows the attended and unattended monitoring locations
referred to in this section and Appendix D.
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