Assessing community responses to noise and vibration impacts from large construction projects in a CBD environment
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- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- Proceedings of Acoustics 2025 Sounds of the Sunset Coast, 2025
- Issue Date:
- 2025-01-01
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Delivering a large infrastructure project in CBD and high-rise urban environments presents significant challenges to the management of construction noise. Tolerance to construction noise varies vastly depending on whether nearby receivers are commercial, offices or residential. It is also influenced by the time of noise impact, duration, and any special characteristics of the noise, such as rock hammering or concrete saw cutting. Additionally, community expectations, ideological sentiment for the project or impact to property value can also be an influencing factor. This paper examines the adverse comment and incident history of a section of a major metro rail project in Sydney. This included the demolition of over 50 buildings, excavation of 15 km of twin tunnel and spoil removal, and the subsequent construction of 7 stations and over-station development at some locations. From this data, noise and vibration related issues have been extracted, analysed and compared with other environmental impacts. An outline of innovative project conditions of approval is provided along with a discussion of community expectations, effectiveness of implemented feasible and reasonable mitigation measures, and some lessons learnt.
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