| Noise pollution (or environmental noise in | | | | nearest neighbour you could make as much |
| technical areas and venues) is termed as | | | | noise as you wanted and it wasn't a problem. |
| displeasing or annoying human or mechanically | | | | Nowadays basically we have people living on |
| caused sound that is or can be described as | | | | top of each other, underneath each other and |
| alien to the environment. I guess to most of | | | | in fact all over the place and more |
| us the major source of this pollution would | | | | importantly interfacing with modern day |
| come from transportation systems, as anyone | | | | technologies in ways that hitherto would have |
| who has tried to hire a car from the main | | | | thought to have been impossible. As such the |
| AVIS car rental depot at Heathrow Airport | | | | use of the acoustic foam and the noise |
| would testify to. Based on the perimeter road | | | | dampening systems are essential. If we take |
| at Heathrow sometimes the noise of landing | | | | for example the situation in many cities |
| 747's can make it a little difficult | | | | nowadays when we have whole plethoras of |
| explaining to the attendant what problems you | | | | modern communication links such as |
| may have had (or not) with the car you are | | | | underground railway systems, over ground |
| returning. However before we all start to | | | | railway systems, modern two-way flyovers and |
| assume that noise pollution is purely | | | | in fact transports communications and |
| something that occurs in major cities let us | | | | residential accommodation right next to each |
| consider the effect of noise pollution in | | | | other. Without adequate noise reduction |
| rural communities. Now noise from | | | | systems in place and incorporated within the |
| recreational vehicles has become quite a | | | | structure of the residential and work |
| major issue with the rural communities. Quad | | | | accommodation than pretty quickly life within |
| Bikes or All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) have | | | | these new cities would become pretty |
| become a serious problem in the countryside. | | | | intolerable. As we have said before, enter |
| They have increased massively in popularity | | | | stage left acoustic foam. Without these new |
| and are joining the more traditional two | | | | technologies providing the noise insulation, |
| wheeled bikes as the vehicle of choice for | | | | the quality of life in most built up areas |
| off road riding. The bottom line is that we | | | | would be appalling. At this point it becomes |
| live in a noisy world and by that I mean not | | | | pretty obvious to all concerned quite what a |
| just the sound of cars and traffic etc but | | | | debt we owe to noise reduction systems and |
| the way we live our lives and perhaps more | | | | soundproofing in general that quite often |
| importantly where we are now living and the | | | | mere words on no longer enough. Having lived |
| density of the accommodation we provide | | | | in the centre of London and also spent time |
| ourselves. In the old days when basically all | | | | on the northwest coast of County Donegal in |
| you had to worry about was the old cottage in | | | | Ireland, when it comes to noise pollution I |
| the middle of the field 6 miles away from the | | | | know which one I prefer. |