Graduate Acoustics Engineer

Designs and evaluates acoustic solutions for buildings and venues, focusing on sound insulation, noise control, room acoustics, vibration isolation, and audio-visual systems.

What is Acoustic Engineering? 

Outcome focused design:
‘Reverse engineering’ from the people-centric results our clients want from their buildings, we develop and use the most advanced computational tools to inform our designs. Good examples include the HOME Theatre complex where we created a mathematical prediction of the response to mounting the building on springs to mitigate groundborne rail vibration, or at a well known web giant’s European HQ in central London where we used novel modelling techniques to predict how much colleagues would be distracted by each other’s noise in an open plan office.  

Communication:
But it’s not about the tools – our focus is on being able to communicate the results to our clients across key technical areas such as noise break-in, internal sound transmission, reverberation control, building services noise, structural dynamics, audio-visual design, public address and voice alarm, and vibration. A key focus is engagement. An example of this is our work with the prestige gym chain Equinox which often retrofit their facilities inside existing listed buildings. 

Our relationship allows us to understand the unique aspirations of each site, and tailor a dynamic, vibration isolation and sound insulation solution to each development based on the specific activities proposed. Another example was the new Faculty of Arts building at Warwick University, where a significant part of our role was simply to listen to the requirements of the different faculties and translate these into the language of engineering solutions. 

Challenge:
We’re excited and motivated by the challenging, complex and difficult. Our team loves applying industry-leading innovation on the hardest challenges, from the ultra-high-tech (such as the award-winning Dyson campus and Imperial College Michael Uren buildings) to the curiously unusual (such as the one-of-a-kind architectural form of the Museum of the Future).

What would I do? 

• Sound insulation design 

• Acoustic surveys, benchmarking and commissioning 

• Room acoustics design and reverberation control 

• Venue, performance space and concert hall design 

• Structural vibration isolation and dynamics 

• Control of external noise break-in and façade & ventilation design 

• Audio visual and sound system design 

• Environmental acoustics

• Design and assessment of internal and external building services noise and vibration 

• Public address and voice alarm design

What degree would I have studied?

• Acoustics

• Acoustic Engineering

• Sound & Vibration Studies

• Engineering Acoustics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Physics