Building and Architectural Acoustics

Environmental Noise and Planning

Industrial Noise at Work

Mechanical Services

An important part of SRP's involvement in the building services sector is ensuring that the noise "climate" inside air conditioned buildings conforms to acceptable standards. Sharps Redmore Partnership's consultants have considerable experience in this area with particular expertise on the subject of ventilation noise covering fan and air regenerated noise sources. Most importantly this experience means that the SRP consultancy team can offer good, practical advice to the manufacturer or mechanical services contractor which it is believed is second to none. Most of this advice is based on previously successful problem-solving rather than the theoretical approach common elsewhere.

To assist with the prediction of ventilation noise control requirements, SRP has a large suite of noise control programs specifically designed to assess noise from all aspects of ventilation services. This software also has a built in data-base of attenuator insertion losses enabling SRP consultants to provide factual dimensions for the attenuators based on space and pressure drop constraints. SRP's advice usually takes the final form of insertion loss schedules which the mechanical services contractor can use as part of his tender documents, in order to obtain quotations for the supply of the attenuation equipment.

Our consultancy specialises in the provision of practical advice that will allow even the most difficult and complex of schemes to "work". In this respect, our expertise covers the selection of centrifugal and axial flow fans where SRP consultants are able to employ specialist knowledge to select quieter fans if all other measures fail to provide solutions. Our consultants are, also, knowledgeable about the noise aspects of constant and variable volume terminal boxes, the selection of grilles and diffusers, variable control dampers and duct design.

Our expertise has been used to assess and specify noise control requirements for a large number of retail and office developments as well as cinemas, live theatre auditoriums, hotels and production plants.

Vibration