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Acoustics & Noise Control in New York

  1. Major Acoustics Research Organizations around New York
  2. New York area universities active in acoustics research and noise control
  3. New York area acoustic engineers, consultants and acoustic materials suppliers
  4. The New York City Noise Code

1. Major Acoustics Research Organizations around New York

Acoustics and noise research organizations of international importance are located in the city of New York or in surrounding areas. They draw on the area’s historical legacy in the development of the telephone and the radio, the musical recording industry, medical research, architecture, noise control and the building of submarines.

Acoustical Society of America, Orange County Chapter
http://www.ocasa.org/index.htm

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey: the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory continues Bell’s historic research on telephone acoustics and voice recognition
http://www.bell-labs.com/org/1133/Research/Acoustics/

IAC (Industrial Acoustics Company), Bronx, New York: multinational vendor of materials and construction methods to alleviate effects of environmental noise (aircraft, road traffic, building acoustics); established 1949, publish Noise Control Reference Handbook
http://www.iacl.co.uk/usa/

Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island
develop underwater sensors and license acoustic technology
http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/

2. New York area universities active in acoustics research and noise control

Because acoustics spans different disciplines, acoustics research can be located in a variety of university departments, from music and biology to engineering or architecture. The following New York area universities conduct acoustics research in at least one department:

Buffalo University
University of Connecticut (physiological acoustics)
Columbia University, Engineering Department
Cornell University (bioacoustics, oceanography)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
City University of New York (speech)
New Jersey Institute of Technology (underwater acoustics)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (architectural acoustics, noise control)
University of Rochester (bioacoustics)
Rutgers University
Stevens Institute of Technology
St. Johns University
Syracuse University

3. New York area acoustic engineers, consultants and acoustic materials suppliers

Consultants in acoustics are listed at the web sites acoustics.org and acoustics.com. The Reference USA database (a resource that the library pays for which is only available on SIBL premises) contains detailed information about many companies and consultants in acoustics. You can search this database for the following ‘SIC’ codes that define specialist businesses in acoustics:

329602 Acoustic materials, manufacturers
382903 Acoustic/Vibration instrumentation
503921 Acoustic materials, wholesalers
871102 Acoustical Consultants
871108 Engineers—Acoustical
174201 Acoustical materials
174202 Acoustical contractors

Acoustical consultants and materials suppliers also have their own section in the Yellow Pages. For specialists in architectural acoustics and building, consult the Blue Book Building and Construction directory (*R-TH13.N53.B58, by request at the McGraw Desk).

4. The New York City Noise Code

The city government of one of the world’s noisiest cities is naturally active in trying to limit or reduce the noise of traffic, machinery and inconsiderate neighbors.

Building Code of New York City, stipulates acoustic standards for new buildings, noise limits for external air conditioning machinery. On SIBL’s open reference shelves at call number *R - KFX2030 .A2B8 and searchable online over the Internet at http://nyc.gov/html/dob/html/code.html

BLOOMBERG SEEKS TO TOUGHEN CODE FOR NOISE IN CITY. (Metropolitan Desk) Jennifer Steinhauer. The New York Times June 8, 2004 pA1(L) col 06 (28 col in) (1105 words) article available at SIBL using New York Times full text database

New York City Noise Code (1998), posted on Internet by the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
http://www.nonoise.org/lawlib/cities/newyork.htm

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