A crowd at a music festival

Festival and Event Noise Management and Monitoring

The dBx Acoustics team are music fans as well as noise experts. We know how important it is for festivals and live events to be a good neighbour, as well as providing a great experience for the crowd.

Here’s how we can help;

Licensing Application

  • We’ll work with you to draft your licence application, and liaise with the Local Authority from application to final decision, including negotiating licensing conditions.

  • We’ll prepare your noise management strategy, and make sure that you understand what you need to do in practice.

Noise Monitoring and Management

Our extensive range of equipment allows us to monitor simultaneously at multiple locations during your event, both on- and off-site. This means that we can react quickly to help you control noise levels to comply with your licensing conditions. Our on-site team will also set up a complaints log, and deal with any noise complaints received during the event.

We also set up ‘traffic light’ monitors at the mixing desk for each stage, so that the band’s engineer can monitor noise levels in real-time.

We don’t just show up for the fun part, though. We’ll be there to support your preparation and licence application, provide a noise management plan for the event, and liaise with the

Local Authority on any noise queries. After the event, we’ll provide you with a post-event report which can also be submitted to the licensing authority.

In everything we do, our goal is to make sure that your event is a success in every way – compliance with the noise management plan, being a responsible neighbour, and ensuring the best crowd experience.

New European HQ for SAP

dBx Acoustics worked with TTSP architects and project managers Storey on the fit out of two floors in London’s iconic ‘Scalpel’ building. The project created an activity based, agile workspace for the new European HQ for enterprise software company SAP.

The client provided in-house US acoustic design standards to us as our starting point. As the standards vary from UK terminology in several subtle ways, our first task was to review the requirements and convert them into a specification that could be used to tender the fit-out using a UK contractor.

During the work we identified areas where the specification was inconsistent or unclear and helped the client to develop a more coherent and well-defined set of acoustic requirements.

The fit-out included open plan office areas, a suite of meeting rooms, breakout and cafe space and quiet working areas. Speech privacy between meeting rooms was initially challenging due to the landlord’s limitations on connections to the mullions and the desire to have an open ceiling with suspended rafts. Good design and detailing ensured that, upon commissioning, the required level of speech privacy was achieved.

As SAP’s European HQ, the fit-out also includes an open plan area which can be used as a presentation space for external clients. Excellent speech intelligibility throughout this area was a key requirement and an acoustic model of the space was created to establish the most effective quantity and placement of acoustic treatments.

The project was completed in Spring 2021. You can find out more about the HQ here.

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