Professional Association for Sanitation, Heating and Air conditioning of Bavaria to launch a seminar for its members –
turning them into technical experts for “noise control for building installations in residential areas”

Müller-BBM’s training is geared towards employees of companies engaged in the planning and set-up of building installations.

Increasingly used stationary units for ventilation and both heating and cooling of buildings lead to a growing number of noise problems within residential areas. It is the intention of the training course to counteract the increase of noise problems in residential areas going along with the use of the device group in question (amongst others air-source heat pumps, air-conditioning systems).

Participants of the training course will be enabled to give professional advice on noise protection issues for the outdoor installation of certain building equipment and appliances already in the planning stage. Therefore, the training scheme is not least set up for craft businesses that are charged with the planning and set-up of building installations emitting noise to the environment. To boot, the seminar participants will learn about simplified immission forecasts that can be used to control and certify compliance with certain acoustic requirements, if appropriate. Thus, time-consuming queries and noise complaints from the neighbourhood leading to extensive reworking on installed units can be avoided.  

In this practical seminar the participants are informed about the prevailing legal requirements in connection with noise control in residential areas. With easy, but effective measures they learn how to ensure that compliance with these requirements is given and how to keep records. This qualification, together with the corresponding expert knowledge, helps to bolster customer satisfaction and to improve customer loyalty – all in all, a unique selling proposition giving a clear competitive advantage.

Seminar topics:

• What is at issue? – Necessity of noise control in residential areas
• Noise – what is meant by it? – Basic principles of technical acoustics
• Which are the regulations dealing with noise control in residential areas? – ‘ TA Lärm, 32. BImSchV
• Which are the parameters for the sound level of devices? – Sound pressure level and sound power level
• What kind of noise is particularly annoying? – Tonality and impulsiveness of noise, noise rating levels
• The ways of noise propagation – Acoustic shielding and sound reflection
• How to consider noise abatement in the planning stage? – Systematic approach when planning to install appliances radiating noise to the environment
• How to avoid annoying complaints and reworking, helpful information for installing companies and their customers – Standardised documentation form for the planning stage  

Further information and registration for FV SHK

Müller-BBM’s seminar concept for the professional association for sanitation, heating and air conditioning of Bavaria is based on the research project of the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA) “Technical expert for noise from stationary appliances in residential areas” (project 30504 UBA-FB-No. 001963).