City of Toronto equipment noise suppression programme

Authors

  • G. Cummings Dept. of Public Works & the Environ., Noise Control Branch, Toronto, Ont., Canada

Keywords:

noise abatement, equipment, Toronto, noise suppression programme, noise control programme

Abstract

It 1973 Toronto City Council considered a Noise Control Study and directed that a programme of noise control be adopted to begin a guiding principle of which would be controlled at its source. As a result, the City of Toronto Noise By-law was passed in February 1975. A key part of the noise control programme was the adoption of a policy that the City would purchase acoustically designed equipment for use in its Operations and Sanitation Sections. The objective of this policy was to establish guideline noise levels to encourage private contractors to use the quietest available equipment on road construction, utility upgrading and maintenance work within the City boundaries. Further steps taken towards achieving a quieter environment included a social perception survey, and ongoing testing of construction machinery to establish practical noise emission levels for various kinds of construction equipment such as air compressors, jack hammers, backhoes etc

Published

1993-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Cummings G. City of Toronto equipment noise suppression programme. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 1993Sep.1 [cited 2021Apr.14];21(3):125-. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/806

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (1993)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

Copyright on articles is held by the author(s). The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors and does grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide exclusive licence (or non-exclusive license for government employees) to the Publishers and its licensees in perpetuity, in all forms, formats and media (whether known now or created in the future)
i)    to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Contribution;
ii)    to translate the Contribution into other languages, create adaptations, reprints, include within collections and create summaries, extracts and/or, abstracts of the Contribution;
iii)    to exploit all subsidiary rights in the Contribution,
iv)    to provide the inclusion of electronic links from the Contribution to third party material where-ever it may be located;
v)    to licence any third party to do any or all of the above.