architectural & residential Services

Noise and vibration issues in residential buildings can impact comfort, privacy, and property value. Common concerns include HVAC and mechanical system noise and vibration, room-to-room and unit-to-unit sound transmission, and challenges with speech privacy and intelligibility. NCE works with homeowners and property owners to assess, model, and resolve these challenges. Our goal is to deliver practical code-compliant solutions that improve living environments and meet building codes, noise ordinances, and community standards.

Our services include:

• Interpretation and understanding of local, state, and federal noise ordinances
• Onsite assessments of noise and vibration
• Long-term monitoring
• Room-to-room acoustic privacy assessments (Sound Transmission Class, STC, Rw)
• Sound intelligibility assessments
• HVAC noise assessments
• Solution development through modeling and assessments
• Treatment implementation support
• Peer review
• Expert witness testimony