Immission control – for our quality of life
We help prevent noise and vibrations from traffic, machinery and installations that surround us. We protect residential areas from traffic noise and disturbance from commercial and industrial facilities. This ensures the peace and quiet that we need to uphold our quality of life.
Noise immission control | traffic facilities
Prevention and shielding.
- Forecasting and assessing traffic noise immissions according to 16. BImSchV
- Developing effective preventive measures to fulfil the legal entitlements of affected residents with regard to noise in accordance with section 41 BImSchG.
- Comparing sound insulation concepts
- Technical support for projects in legal and planning approval procedures
- Acoustic expert reports for environmental impact assessments
- Examination of possible health hazards
Noise immission control | commercial and industrial facilities
Making living and working compatible.
- DakkS noise testing centre
- Noise immission measurements near facilities subject or not subject to approval according to BImSchG
- Noise immission forecasts for approval procedures after commissioning of new facilities or expansion of existing ones
- Emission inventories
- Noise mitigation concepts for companies
- Catalogues of constructional and organisational measures
- Acoustic assessment of noise abatement concepts
- Acceptance measurements in the approval procedure
Sound insulation | urban development, sports facilities, leisure facilities
Peace and quiet.
- Determining and assessing the effects of existing road, rail and aircraft noise on planned development areas with uses requiring noise control
- Determining and assessing noise immissions from existing commercial, sports or leisure facilities
- Metrological analyses in the vicinity of existing facilities
- Forecasting noise immissions from planned commercial and industrial areas, sports facilities and leisure facilities
- Allocation of emissions
Noise immission control and vibration protection at construction sites
Keeping the crockery on the shelf.
- Forecasting immissions from construction work on surrounding buildings
- Abatement concepts
- Monitoring construction noise and vibrations with measurements
- Immission control officer
Vibration protection on traffic routes or commercial and industrial facilities
Man and machine in harmony.
- DakkS vibration testing centre
- Measuring and assessing the effects of vibrations on people, buildings or sensitive installations.
- Metrological evidence of vibration immissions in buildings
- Assessment of effects on people in buildings
- Assessment of effects on physical structures
- Forecasting vibration immissions
- Developing abatement measures
- Long-term monitoring for analysing immissions
- Forecasting vibrations from building work
- Immission control officer
Structural dynamics | elastic building support
Preventing bad vibrations.
- Identifying requirements for vibration control
- Measuring and analysing dynamic behaviour of existing buildings or installations
- Analysing dynamic behaviour of buildings or installations in the planning phase using FEM calculations
- Planning isolation measures
- Acceptance measurements after commissioning
- Forecasting vibrations from building work
- Immission control officer
Structural dynamics | foundations
Stopping buildings from vibrating.
- Determining isolation requirements for actively or passively supported foundations
- Dimensioning foundation and bearing elements according to the relevant dynamic parameters
- Metrological analyses to determine vibration emissions
- Determining insulation effectiveness specifications for refurbishments
- Acceptance measurements after commissioning
Structural dynamics | railway lines
Keeping the railways rolling.
- Determining insertion loss requirements for elastic components in the track
- Determining the type of track (mass-spring system; ballast; under sleeper pads)
- Determining the dynamic stiffness of the elastic components to achieve the required insertion loss
- Computational verification of achievable insertion loss of elastic elements to be used for isolation as part of approval procedures
Machinery acoustics
We make machinery quieter.
- Metrological examinations of prototypes and models for analysing noise emission and transmission
- Analysing noise generation mechanisms
- Developing constructional measures to reduce emissions
- Sound intensity measurements for locating sound sources
- Determining the sound power of partial sources
- Order analyses for emissions dependent on rotary speed
- Structure-borne sound measurements for analysing noise generation processes and sound radiation
- Measuring sound power levels
Machinery dynamics
When it takes precision.
- Experimental modal analysis of machinery, machine frames and foundations to determine modal parameters (natural frequencies, vibration modes)
- Determining transfer admittances (vibration-to-vibration) to quantify transfer characteristics of existing isolation measures
- Determining requirements for immission-compatible elastic isolation of systems from structures
- Determining relevant natural frequencies of systems and damping parameters
- Multi-body calculation models for simulating vibration behaviour
- Dimensioning the required dynamic stiffness of elastic bearing components
- Computational verification of compliance with defined requirements
- Short-term or long-term metrological monitoring of machinery and systems
We transform visions into projects.
Our range of services includes: construction management, thermal building physics, independent third party checking, fire protection, geotechnics, building construction, immission control, civil engineerin constructions, traffic facilities and hydraulic steelwork.