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Over recent years we have seen big increases in all types of building projects from domestic houses to major infrastructure projects like HS2. More and more local authorities are including monitoring requirements for noise, dust and vibration right from the planning stage and all too often there’s either no mains…

When you are measuring something accurately, you need to know that the results are really what they say they are. Therefore, it is necessary to compare your measurement capability to some reference. A calibration will allow you to check this and have confidence in your instrument going forward. Think of…

Lontra has a culture of innovation, encouraging thorough engineering evaluation to design better products. They wanted a rigorous approach to identify and precisely target key noise sources in our new blower, to efficiently achieve a quiet product. LP2 is the first fully packaged blower manufactured by Lontra using its proven…

Under the Building Regulations, Approved Document E (ADE) 2003 (as amended 2010, 2013, 2015) sound testing between residential dwellings is a requirement for building control sign-off. What to test? Under ADE, a full set (comprising of 2x airborne wall tests, 2x airborne floor tests and 2x impact floor tests) is…

Although dust monitoring for environmental air quality evaluation has been around for many years, it is a relatively new parameter requirement for construction projects. The ES-642 Cloud from AcSoft is an MCERTified instrument that can provide PM10 or PM2.5 measurement data via the SvanNET portal or direct to your own system. The instrument can be run…

This was one of the questions posed to the IOA M&I Group panel earlier this year at the ‘Ask the Instrumentation Expert’ meeting reported on in the last IOA bulletin. This seems to be one area of genuine innovation in sound level meters, and we have received several requests to…

Noise has been a monitoring requirement in and around construction sites for many years and it is important that you put in a system that gives you the data you need in the easiest way possible. We believe that the SV 307 from Svantek is now the de facto standard at…

From The Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, this study is a comparison between measurements with hand-attached and tool-attached accelerometers. This study is important because it shows that the choice of accelerometer placement affects the measurement result. The working technique, specifically the individual handgrips used by workers, is an important…

On a construction site it is vital that environmental parameter monitoring systems are designed and built for purpose. They have to operate for extended periods in the harshest environments and you have to be confident that your data is always there when you need it. At Svantek we are probably the…

Over recent years we have seen big increases in all types of building projects from domestic houses to major infrastructure projects like HS2. More and more local authorities are including monitoring requirements for noise, dust and vibration right from the planning stage and the onus is very much on construction…

By Aidan Hubbard, Sales Director The most important part of my job is to make sure people understand IEC 61672 and to make sure that people fully understand the benefits of having instrumentation with this standard applied. Some instrumentation suppliers will claim to comply to IEC 61672 but they don’t…

Advances in computing and communications technology have allowed for a shift in approach when it comes to measuring environmental noise. The speed of change has meant that there are no current standards that apply for a lot of systems that are used, or that a cumbersome and potentially expensive fudge…