Acoustic Consultants Ltd in London

Servicing all London Boroughs and Beyond

While we have an office in central London, our team is also based remotely across central London, Surrey and Hertfordshire.

That means we’re perfectly positioned to provide noise testing and assessments throughout the London boroughs.

We’re also ideally located to assist with projects across Kent, Sussex, Cambridgeshire and Essex.

Noise Testing and Assessments in London

Take a look at some of the acoustic and noise projects that our London office has been involved in.

Guinness At Old Brewer’s Yard

In 2024, Guinness will open a £73m micro-brewery and cultural hub in the Covent Garden area of London.

​The site is part of Old Brewers Yard, an 18th-century brewery. The premises will be redeveloped to include:

• A microbrewery producing limited edition beers and offering tours with Guinness beer specialists
• Event spaces
• A central covered courtyard
• A Guinness store
• An open-fire kitchen and restaurant
• A 360o glass rooftop space

Our acoustic consultants in London were appointed by the international design firm RKD to provide acoustic advice for this development, from planning through to completion.

We’ve been working proactively with the design team, client and local authority throughout the process to ensure successful planning. And we’re currently progressing with detailed design advice.

Cornerstone & Shenstone School

Cornerstone and Shenstone are two special educational needs and disabilities schools located very close together in southeast London. The client brought us in to provide acoustic advice and post-completion testing for proposed refurbishments and expansions.

The combined projects totalled four refurbished buildings and two new build teaching blocks, including a sports hall and an art block.

We provided actionable advice based on Building Bulletin 93 for both internal acoustic performance and internal sound insulation performance for both the refurbishment and new build aspects of the project. In addition, we assessed all relevant proposed mechanical plants to ensure the guidance outlined in British Standard 4142 could be met at all noise-sensitive properties. 

Construction and refurbishment are both well underway. On completion, our consultants will return to undertake testing of relevant partitions to confirm that all installations have achieved their design criteria.

Creekside 2, Depot

This large-scale multi-purpose development project encompasses the redevelopment of a public house, new commercial units and multiple residential units.

We’ve conducted a noise and vibration survey to determine the noise-ambient around the development. That includes the noise and vibrations from the nearby DLR railway, as well as measurements of the current noise from the public house, which hosts music events.

In the course of this project, we’ve undertaken a noise ingress assessment and a vibration assessment. And we’ve established external plant noise limits, and construction noise and vibration limits.

The standards used to achieve these have been:

• NPPF
• NPSE
• NPPG
• Local authority
• BS8233
• BS4142
• Department of Transport
• BS5228-1 and -2

While planning is still pending, it’s very likely to be approved. We’ve been further appointed for another development opposite Creekside 2, which is to be named Creekside 3.

Bishops Stortford High School

This project involves a new school development in Bishop’s Stortford, complete with special educational needs (SEN) spaces.

The Acoustic Consultants Ltd London team have finished the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stage 4, also known as the Technical Design stage. This included a site noise survey, internal ambient noise levels, room acoustic specification, internal sound insulation specification, and a plant noise assessment.

All our work was done in constant communication and collaboration with all the other disciplines, including the architect, and mechanical and electrical teams.

The standards used so far have been:

• Mainly BB93
• NPPF
• NPSE
• NPPG

The school is already in the construction phase, which we’re currently supervising. And once it’s finished, our team will undertake post-completion acoustic testing.

As a result of our quality of work, we’ve also been appointed for the design of another school in the same area called Avanti Grange Secondary School.