THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STATISTICAL PARAMETERS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF AMPLIFIED MUSIC
D PATEL, R VASUDEVAN · 2023
A night noise offence is assessed by the use of a measurement protocol, developed by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) 2 .Following field tests, the recommendations submitted to the then Department of Environment (DoE) were as follows:Noise emitted from the offending dwelling is to be measured as a continuous L Aeq, 5min within a 15 minute period.The underlying noise level is then determined, such that it is not exceeded for any 0.6s period, within a window of between 1 to 5 minutes.This equates to an L A99, 1min , L A99.5, 2min , and L A99.8, 5min .