Applications: Environmental & Airport Noise Monitoring
The increasing awareness of the public of environmental issues such as CO2 emissions, carbon footprints and waste recycling has brought the issue of environmental noise to the fore. Many of the demands of modern society result in the creation of noise sources such as larger airports, additional power stations and higher road traffic levels.
In addition to this, the expansion of towns and cities, driven by the demand for housing, has often resulted in the development of land near to existing noise sources. These trends have meant that many more industries are now required to monitor their environmental noise impact and where operations are 24 hours, to carry out continuous noise monitoring.
In 1996, data from the EU Green Paper on Future Noise Policy[1] estimated that around 20% of the European Union’s population, or close to 80 million people, suffer from noise levels that scientists and health experts consider to be unacceptable, where most people become annoyed, where sleep is disturbed and where adverse health effects are to be feared.
An additional 170 million citizens are living in so-called “grey areas” where the noise levels are such to cause serious annoyance during the daytime.
Cirrus has a range of noise measurement and monitoring products that can be used to help you measure and monitor your environmental noise issues. To help you further, we have also created a new division within the Cirrus group, Cirrus Environmental, which specialises in environmental noise monitoring systems for a wide range of different applications. Click on the links below to view the different products and solutions available from Cirrus.
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EU Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC
On 21st May, 2002, the Council of Ministers formally approved the EU Environmental Noise Directive. Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25th June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise is now being implemented in the EU Member States.
The Environmental Noise Directive is a direct result of the European Union's Noise Policy Green Paper from 1996. It covers transportation and industrial noise in the environment. The directive requires that noise maps and action plans (noise policy) be made for:
Agglomerations with populations greater than 100 000
Major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicles a year (approximately 8 000 a day)
Major railways with more than 30 000 trains a year
Major civil airports with more than 50 000 operations year (approximately 135 day)
