Who Are Acoustical Consultants?

Acoustical Consultants are drawn from a wide array of disciplines including engineering, physics, architecture, industrial hygiene, and performing arts, particularly music and entertainment. Some continue to offer services outside acoustics, but all benefit from their backgrounds in these related fields.

Acoustical Consultants seek to solve real world problems affecting individuals, businesses, institutions, and the community. They are designers, problem solvers, advisors, mediators, and inventors practicing across a range of specialties typically including one or more of the following:

Architectural Acoustics—all types of buildings, auditoria, stadia, schools and multi-building developments

Mechanical Systems Noise & Vibration Control—air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems, rooftop units, chillers and cooling towers, central plants

Industrial Workplace Noise—manufacturing, processing plants, oil/mining operations, power generation

Environmental Noise Evaluation & Control—transportation, industry, recreation, residential & commercial development and entertainment facilities

Product and System Design—audio products and systems; sound quality of appliances, machines and vehicles

Forensic Acoustics—environmental noise, hearing damage, signal detection, scientific counsel to the legal profession

Research and Regulatory Issues—hearing conservation, material sciences, codes & standards