As part of its commitment to customers, Asda regularly makes improvements to its stores. Asda Hounslow is one of several businesses located on the ground floor of the Blenheim Centre, a high-rise, residential building containing a large number of apartments. Noise generated at previous schemes on the site resulted in residents complaining to environmental health. Asda chose Sigma to undertake the refurbishment to ensure that work was carried out with minimal noise pollution and disruption.
ChallengeTo avoid disruption to the store and to enable customers to continue shopping, refurbishment works needed to take place after the store closed at midnight. This meant that work would take place while residents were asleep, increasing the likelihood of noise disturbance. The project required the use of drills to install new LED lighting and the operation of a long-running saw, both of which would generate loud noise. During the middle of the night, because of no background noise, even general working noise had the potential to cause a noise issue for residents.
SolutionThe first stage was to install Monitex Area Noise Monitors to establish the existing nighttime noise levels that Blenheim residents experience on a day-to-day basis, for example, from passing traffic and forklift truck operations. Over a two-week period, measurements were taken to provide a quantifiable baseline of the average noise level that residents experience on a day to day basis.
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