Trade body awards celebrate top flight acoustic performance

The skills and ingenuity of UK-based acoustic professionals working on national and international projects across a variety of environments were celebrated at a trade body awards.

ANC, the Association of Noise Consultants, unveiled the winners of its acclaimed Acoustic Awards programme at the Hyatt Regency Birmingham.

Promoting and recognising excellence among UK acoustic consultants, the awards showcased the skills of members across five categories.

Hoare Lea secured the winning project in the award for ‘Architectural Acoustics: Commercial Buildings,’ sponsored by H & H Acoustic Technologies, with Sandy Brown Associates highly commended and SRL Technical Services commended in this category.

‘Architectural Acoustics: Education Buildings,’ sponsored by Ecophon, was secured by Sandy Brown Associates, with Adrian James Acoustics receiving the highly commended accolade and a commended award for Pace Consult.

‘Environmental Noise,’ sponsored by ANV Measurement Systems, was won by Apex Acoustics, with Southdowns Environmental Consultants taking highly commended and a commended title for AECOM in this category.

It was another successful outcome for Apex Acoustics, the winners in the ‘Smaller Projects’ award sponsored by Bruel & Kjaer, with AECOM taking the highly commended award and Red Twin the commended title.

The final award, ‘Vibration,’ sponsored by Pliteq, was won by Cole Jarman. WSP were highly commended and RBA Acoustics commended in this category.

Full details about the winning entries, with a link to a brochure featuring case study information on each project, can be viewed at http://www.association-of-noise-consultants.co.uk/2017-award-winners-revealed/

The awards were presented by James Woudhuysen, forecasting and innovation specialist and visiting professor at London South Bank University, with a distinguished panel of judges comprising of academics and professionals, as well as representatives from the sponsor companies, scrutinising the national and international entries.

Robert Osborne of ANC, said: “Now in their fifth year, the ANC awards continue to gain ground as a major opportunity to highlight world-leading expertise in the industry, and to inspire the next generation of acoustic consultants.

“Once again this year, the judges were hugely impressed with the scope and scale of the entries.

“The projects illustrate the unique skills of our UK-based acoustic and noise professionals and their innovative approach across the built environment, transportation and entertainment sectors.”

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Wolf Hunger Task Force Resurfacing & Repaving Project

Wolf Paving recently resurfaced and repaved a parking lot at the Hunger Task Force Farm in Franklin, Wisconsin. The Farm grows fruits and vegetables specificly for the purpose of feeding the hungry. Here they grow over 30 varieties of fruits and vegetables all delivered free of charge. To learn more specifically about The Farm visit their site here.

Here at Wolf Paving we are big believers in working to better the community and greatly apprechiate what the Hunger Task Force does. Needless to say we were more than happy to help them in any way possible. We made a brief video discribing the kind of work we did to their parking lot in oder to help others see our methods in action.

 

A transcript for the video can be found here:

"The Hunger Task Force requested the resurfacing of an existing parking lot at their Farm located in Franklin, WI.

The parking lot is located at the north end of the property and is frequently used by visitors and volunteers working at the farm.

Preparing the surface required cutting weeds around the perimeter of the parking lot, and marking the surface for milling.

Additionally, the surrounding curb is marked to ensure that the new asphalt is properly pitched for runoff.

Prior to laying new asphalt, the existing asphalt surface required milling to remove surface irregularities. The boxbroom sweeper recovers loose debris, which is recycled for aggregate in new asphalt.

The new asphalt was laid in the course of a day, making the total duration for the job five days."

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Beautiful driveways in Scunthorpe & Durham

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Two recent installations of driveways in Scunthorpe and Durham.

Recent projects carried out in Scunthorpe and Durham, below are the before and after photos of each project.

Scunthorpe Project

Durham Project 

 

 

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Wolf Paving Presents The Top 50 Songs About Roads

This year Summerfest celebrates its 50th anniversary! They have been providing Milwaukee with musical fun and world-wide recognition for being “The World’s Largest Music Festival” since before man touched down on the moon.

To celebrate this achievement, we put together a collection of the Top 50 Songs About Roads! From Adele to ZZ Top we got all the hits made for long drives down smooth pavement. We even added a section for songs by artists coming to this year’s Summerfest.

You can get in on the fun by entering our 50 Road Song contest! By going to our Facebook page and commenting the name of a song about roads on our contest post, you could win Summerfest tickets.

Rules:

Contest runs from 6/15/17 - 6/20/17.  Must be 18 or older to enter. Must be from Wisconsin, no out of state entries. One entry per family, per day. Title of song must reference or contain a variation of road, highway, street, pavement, etc., in the title. All participants names will be put in a random drawing. 5 winners will be selected and notified by 6/21 via Facebook private messenger. Tickets will be mailed to the address provided by the winner; ticket pick-up is not permitted. Wolf Paving is not responsible for lost mail. Tickets cannot be exchanged for a different prize. Once all winners have been verified, a congratulations post will list the winners on the Wolf Paving profile page.

Get Summerfest tickets the old fashion way here.


So, congratulations Summerfest! Here’s to another 50 years of summer jams, cold beers and ringing ear drums.

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