Environmental noise 40 years on

摘要

The IOA's Environmental Noise Group comprises about 1,500 professionals engaged with managing environmental noise in one way or another, often noise from transportation, industry, neighbours, and construction. Members' roles vary from research into understanding the impacts of noise, assessing new noise reducing technologies, advising at the land use planning stage, developing standards and good practice guidance, to enforcing environmental noise legislation. This article summarises how the different types of environmental noise have been managed over the past 40 years, and looks at some key drivers in the evolution of their measurement, assessment and control. Members of the IOA have been instrumental in all these developments.