Environmental Noise Course for Asset Managers

Noise is an issue that deserves increasing attention in society and asset managers of industries and infrastructures are on a permanent pressure to give appropriate responses to multiple requests including legal, the neighborhood and the public. On the other hand, the pressure for this answer to involve the least amount of resources is also large and is is in a situation of conflicting interests that have to be resolved in the best way. In order to achieve this goal, it is required a minimum knowledge of a set of technical and legal aspects that are involved in the issue.

Empower for taking informed decisions in terms of noise impact management in the environment generated in industrial assets and infrastructures.

• Practical acoustics concepts applied to environmental noise; the discomfort;
• Noise characteristics of various types of industrial activities, infrastructure and its surroundings;
• Legal and regulatory framework of the Environmental Noise;
• Discomfort assessment test procedures and exposure assessment; Care of; the interpretation of ambient noise reports;
• Moving to location to be designated for performing measurements in situ observation and practical aspects;
• Forecast noise levels in the design phase; criteria and practical solutions to the feasibility study phase, project, construction and operation;
• Minimizing noise reduction costs;
• Environmental management methodologies of industrial assets and infrastructures.

All those who are somehow involved in the management of industrial assets and noise-generating infrastructures.

The course has an eminently practical and is taught on the basis of examples and case studies.

to be defined 16 hours, Oeiras

Engª Ana Bicker, Luís Conde Santos

600 € (puls I.V.A.), by registered, to pay the registration act. The number of participants is limited.

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