Vibration Monitoring

Vibration monitoring is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the relevant ISO or British Standard.

BS6472-1:2008. This British Standard sets out the guidance to evaluating human exposure to vibrations in buildings. It deals with vibration sources for those events other than blasting. The frequency ranges 0.5 Hz to 80 Hz are considered within this Standard as relevant for human response and include frequency weighting curves relevant to whole-body vibration.

The use of Vibration Dose Values, VDV’s, are described and the method of calculation is included to allow determination of the probability of adverse comments arising from human response to vibration experiences in buildings.

The Standard suggests limits for the probability of adverse effects to human response to vibration and provides a table of probabilities against which one can determine the likelihood of adverse reaction to vibrations.

BS5228-2:2009+A1:2014. This British Standard ‘Code of practice for noise and vibration control on construction and open sites – Part 2: Vibration’ gives recommendations for basic methods of vibration control relating to construction and open sites where work activities/operations generate significant vibration levels. It provides guidance on the methods to be adopted for measuring vibration levels and assessing their effect on the environment.

We can conduct either long-term remote or short-term attended vibration monitoring to investigate specific events, complaints or for use within planning surveys for proposed developments close to vibration sources such as railway lines or busy main roads.