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Advanced Noise 1 - Good Acoustics and Sustainable Design - from 1 September to 30 November 2024
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Advanced Noise 1 - Good Acoustics and Sustainable Design - from 1 September to 30 November 2024

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs. Available from 1 September to 30 November 2024.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

An advanced session designed to look at the guidance and policy surrounding noise and how it impacts on sustainability.

The course will review the principle guidance on noise impact assessment and sustainability, and place this is the context of securing planning policy, and implementation, it will provide a review of the guidance for noise and ventilation requirements as well as some case study examples of good environmental design.  This session will include a review of ‘green technologies’ ground and air source heat, designing for efficiency and provide insight into the knotty problem of ventilation in homes.

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Advanced Noise 2: Case Studies and Applicable Standards - from 1 October to 31 December 2024
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Advanced Noise 2: Case Studies and Applicable Standards - from 1 October to 31 December 2024

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs. It is available from 1 October to 31 December 2024.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This advanced session will focus on case studies that use a variety of acoustic standards to demonstrate environmental impact.  The session will provide a review of how BS4142, and WHO criteria are used in practice to demonstrate environmental impact.  The session will provide a number of case studies for (hopefully) in person review and critical analysis.

The session will provide opportunity to revisit the concept of uncertainty in noise measurement and reporting and how that might affect decision making.

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Advanced Noise 3: BS4142 - 1 November to 31 January 2025
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Advanced Noise 3: BS4142 - 1 November to 31 January 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs. It is available from 1 November to 31 January 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

BS4142 is produced the most commonly applied (and abused) noise impact standard used in the UK.  This webinar will provide a review of the BS4142 standard, taking the delegates through the intended uses, through to the method required by BS4142 to perform an assessment, and then reviewing the results of the assessment including the knotty problem of context.

This webinar will provide delegates with a detailed understanding of what is required to conduct a BS44142 assessment, including measurement strategies (locations, when to measure or model, and how to calculate levels as required by the standard), the use and application acoustic feature corrections, and interpretation of the outcome.

The webinar will be illustrated with examples to ensure that a practical approach is maintained.

The webinar will finish with a review of the potential issues associated with use of the standard, how it might be misapplied and how the reporting requirement inherent within the standard can help to minimise misuse.

The session will be essential for delegates who are new to dealing with noise and BS4142 assessments, but also useful to experienced delegates who will benefit from the detailed discussions around acoustic feature correction, uncertainty assessment, and application of the standard.

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Advanced Noise 4: Mitigation and Option Appraisal - 1 Feb to 31 March 2025
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Advanced Noise 4: Mitigation and Option Appraisal - 1 Feb to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  It is available for 1 month from 1 February 2025 to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This webinar will review noise mitigation methodology.   The session will provide a review of how a noise mitigation target can be calculated and then take the delegates through the options for noise mitigation.  The webinar will focus on the mitigation requirements for the town and county planning process and will review the challenges faced by developers in meeting appropriate noise targets.

The webinar will review in detail the techniques and technologies used for noise control, including any updates on new advances in some of these techniques.  The webinar will provide details on the common mitigation technique based on:

-  Enclosures types, uses and constraints on use
-  Noise barriers (including an update on leading edge technologies)
-  Glazing systems, including the issues around ventilation and Approved Documents F and O

It will also include other variants of the above and look at some emerging new technologies used in specific case studies.

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Essentials of Noise 1 - Introduction to Sound and Noise Monitoring - 2 January to 31 March 2025
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Essentials of Noise 1 - Introduction to Sound and Noise Monitoring - 2 January to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs. It is available from 2 January to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This module marks the commencement of the Essentials of Noise programme.  The module will deal with the basics of sound propagation, calculations, monitoring and evaluation.  This module will provide the basis for understanding and assimilation of the more technically complex aspects of regulation and enforcement of noise.  The module is designed to practical and pragmatic.  The focus will be on what regulators need to know to properly evaluate submitted reports and place them into context.

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Essentials of Noise 2 - Introduction to Legislation and Controls - 2 January to 31 March 2025
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Essentials of Noise 2 - Introduction to Legislation and Controls - 2 January to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs.  It is available from 2 January to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This module is the second of the Essentials of Noise programme. It provides a review of the key legislation and guidance associated with regulatory noise control.  The module will provide a detailed review of law and application, and enforcement of statutory nuisance, planning law, licensing law and environmental permitting law as they relate to noise.

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Essentials of Noise 3 - Noise Impact Assessments - 2 January to 31 March 2025
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Essentials of Noise 3 - Noise Impact Assessments - 2 January to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs.  It is available from 2 January to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This module continues the Essentials of Noise programme.  The module will build on Essentials of Noise 1 and 2 and deal with the evaluation of monitoring results and creation of impact assessments based on appropriate legal and policy standards.

The module will provide explanations and practical examples to describe the appropriate selection of standards based on types of noise and receptor.

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Essentials of Noise 4 - Noise Modelling, Impact and Mitigation - 2 January to 31 March 2025
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Essentials of Noise 4 - Noise Modelling, Impact and Mitigation - 2 January to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.  Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs.  It is available from 2 January to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This module continues the Essentials of Noise programme.  The module will provide delegates with a practical understanding of the basic concepts, development and construction of noise models and look at how they are used in determining compliance with appropriate standards. 

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Essentials of Noise 5 - Preparing and Evaluating Noise Reports - 2 January to 31 March 2025
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Essentials of Noise 5 - Preparing and Evaluating Noise Reports - 2 January to 31 March 2025

This is a pre-recorded webinar.   Estimated time to view this webinar is 5 hrs.  It is available from 2 January to 31 March 2025.

Fee = £295.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

Trainer = Tony Higgins

This module will introduce some practical aspects of noise reporting and evaluation and also serve as a quick review of the key aspects of the previous 4 modules, drawing together the materials provided in other modules to evaluate noise reports and understand how conditions and notices should be drafted.  The module will be based on review of a number of case study examples.  The examples will be provided and delegates will have the opportunity to work through the examples with the guidance of trainers.  The focus of the day will be to arrive at reasoned, evidenced, technically and legally sustainable conclusion.

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Essentials of Noise Regulation Proficiency Test
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Essentials of Noise Regulation Proficiency Test

Fee = £175.00 plus VAT or 3 credits

An EMAQ+ delegate who has attended all 5 EMAQ+ Essentials of Noise Reglation modules and taken and successfully passed the associated Online Knowledge checks, gaining all 5 credits, is eligible to sit a final 'Proficiency Test'.  The test is designed to test their co-ordinated knowledge of all the aspects of Noise Regulation covered by the whole programme.

You cannot self enrol yourself for this test.  You will be invited by the EMAQ+ Team to take this test when you are eligible.