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Acoustic Works prides itself on providing outstanding service to all our clients, ensuring client satisfaction. When reviewing a potential project, we take the time to discuss your requirements while making you aware of potential issues relating to acoustics. We then adopt a procedure to ensure that all acoustic requirements achieve statutory and project requirements, providing cost effective solutions and documentation that can be utilised throughout the project.
Acoustic Works team has significant project experience, working with councils, builders, developers, specialist consultants and trades.
The key for any project is good communication, working to time frames and delivering practical and cost effective solutions. It's our responsibility to ensure you have the best solutions for your project and if better options are available, to make our clients aware of the alternatives and work with them to gain the best solution.
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We'll discuss the situation with you to determine any requirements, then we'll provide opinions on you best course of action regardless of the situation. Not every situation requires acoustic consulting services and there may be an alternative approach to save you money. For the cost of a phone call, you can get real answers from a qualified person.
Product suppliers while knowledgeable about their own products are not experts in the field of acoustics, and may provide advice potentially costing you thousands when it's not required. You should remember that at the end of the day they are selling a product, and the more they sell the more money they make. Acoustic consultants provide unbiased advice and will tell you exactly what's needed and can discuss potential cost savings depending on your budget requirements.
Remember the biggest isn't always the best; likewise the smallest may not be up for the challenge. Before selecting a consultant you should discuss your requirements and get their opinion on your project. Make sure their approach is satisfactory to your requirements and they have experience with similar types of projects. Also ensure the consultant can discuss the acoustic requirements in a manner that you can understand.
While a catalogue can provide the basic systems, in most cases it does not provide the more in depth details to address the flanking paths and junction details for the proposed system. In addition there may be specific design consideration for the project that aren't provided in the catalogue which an acoustic consultant can address avoiding unnecessary expense.
With all projects, cost is a major consideration, but the initial cost of the consultant could save you thousands in rectification work. The logic of getting an experienced consultant to site is to identify defects and prevent them from occurring, providing the quality control to ensure your development is constructed correctly. Remember the consultant you select should be able to work with your trades and staff onsite developing practical solutions as required.
If a situation arises that you're not happy with the answer, you can always get a second opinion from another acoustic company. Discuss the situation with them and let them know your concerns. While this option may result in additional costs, it could result in cost saving for more affordable solutions.
In situations where noise becomes an issue (in an apartment building), you can approach the body corporate to lodge a complaint or contact an acoustic consultant.
In this situation you'll need to engage an acoustic consultant to review the issue. A site visit will be required to investigate and see if an affordable solution is available. The consultant may then provide advice on how to rectify the situation.
If the QDC noise category 1 or less, just install the treatments as it may be cheaper that engaging an acoustic consultant. If the QDC category is 2 or above, an acoustic consultant can potentially save you money by conducting a detailed assessment and reducing the required treatments.
New apartments are designed to higher acoustic standard and codes to reduce the effect of noise from surrounding apartments including footfall impact noise.
