Case studies

Gérard VIOLANTE
Manager in charge of the "Prevention of pollutions and risks” – Val de Marne department

"For the Val de Marne department, strategic noise mapping is one of the tools used to determine and measure the impact of the various noise sources on population, to make decision-makers aware of the importance of taking noise into account in their projects, to promote knowledge and information sharing and to prioritise actions at a territorial level."

M. APPERT
Project manager in charge of the “Environmental charter” for the Grand Dijon region

"Beyond legal obligations, the mapping tool must serve pragmatic goals. It must facilitate the anticipation and argumentation work of the Community’s elected representatives as part of their development projects. The Grand Dijon region carried out an opportunity study about the question of acoustic environment management in general, followed by a feasibility study about mapping as a decision-making aid tool, in order to make ensure its relevance and to make sure the concerned services know how to acquire the required autonomy of use."

M. CHACORNAC
Head of Service “General Expertise Coordination” at the Marseille Provence Métropole urban community

"The community’s responsibility is to implement new regulatory obligations as well as to take advantage from the sound management tools developed within this framework in order to complement other policies carried out on the community’s territory. The goal is not to become an acoustician, but with the help of a specialist, to have a better understanding of the subject and to improve the coherence of urban management related decisions."

M. DOGUET
Plant manager

"Since 10 years, the Rhodia Silices site, established in Collonges (Mont d'Or) works in collaboration with SolData Acoustic (formerly Acouphen Environnement) in order to comply, for its existing installations as well as for its future developments, with legal obligations related to the respect of noise limit values.
This participative approach of continuous improvement, carried out with an acoustician, is considered as exemplar by all the parties involved and was one of the progress actions which enabled the site to obtain its ISO14001 certification".

M. MAYER
Deputy Manager of the Provence power plant

"The technical and economical studies carried out by SolData Acoustic (formerly Acouphen Environnement) and by EDF R&D enabled the development of an action plan of noise reduction in the environment in 2005-2006, corresponding to a 1.2 million euro budget.
The implementation of a continuous monitoring system of the sound emissions (01dB-Métravib’s OPERA system) also allows to measure the efficiency of the progress actions, such as the silencer installed 116m high on the boiler’s roof ".