I undertook 2 separate placements with the following AECOM Acoustics teams:
- St Albans, UK: 15/08/2016 - 09/09/2016: (4 weeks)
- Was specializing in building acoustics
- Corresponded and worked with a large range of national and international clients.
- Ran unattended and attended noise surveys (day and night)
- Christchurch, NZ: 01/06/2017 - 14/08/2017: (12 weeks)
- Experienced a new side to acoustic consultancy
- Due to the differing regulations between NZ and the UK.
- Noise and annoyance subjective survey design and data analysis.
- Processing and trend identification
- Large data set manipulation
- Overall results allowed us to quantify annoyance due to road traffic noise.
- First study of its kind in New Zealand.
- Authored a Python utility module to help with survey analysis
- Implemented a networked real-time logging device to improve data collection and interaction for noise surveys
- Experienced a new side to acoustic consultancy
- Software skills:
- CadnA Acoustics
- Rhino
- CATTAcoustics
- Odeon
- SketchUp
- AutoCAD
- MATLAB/Python
- Excel/VBA
