John is the founder of Savery & Associates with years experience in noise and vibration consulting.

His specialisations include:

• Noise modelling assessment
• Noise impact assessment
• Noise measuring and monitoring assessments
• Noise control assessment and design
• Vibration monitoring and assessment
• Instrumentation for acoustics and vibration measurement

He has extensive field experience of noise and vibration in major processing, mining & industrial plants, transportation infrastructure, construction and commercial projects providing assessments, modelling and design of mitigation strategies.

He has provided assessment and mitigation advice for structurally transmitted noise and vibration in buildings, mechanical vibration of machines, occupational noise exposure, architectural acoustic requirements and mechanical services noise control.

He has prepared and reviewed Noise Guidelines for the EPA and local authorities in Queensland.

He has conducted applied industrial research in noise and vibration for the coal mining industry and local authorities.

He has acted as an Expert Witness in the Planning & Environment Court related to commercial and industrial developments located near to existing residential or community uses.

David Borgeaud has over years experience in noise and vibration consulting. Prior to this he worked in the construction industry. He has extensive experience in the field of acoustics spanning small refurbishments and licence applications to major infrastructure, industrial and building projects lasting several years. He is experienced in undertaking design work and managing technical teams on routine and high-tech assignments.

His specialisations include:

• Architectural acoustics and vibration
• Building services acoustics and vibration
• Environmental project management
• Environmental assessment
• Industrial and commercial noise and vibration
• Transportation noise and vibration
• Occupational noise and vibration
• Expert witness for court cases

David’s experience on architectural building projects includes facade, internal and radiated noise design for – health, educational & office buildings, church and community facilities, military, residential, and arts and entertainment venues. He was part of the design team that took out the top engineering award for the State Library Redevelopment on Brisbane River.

He has undertaken acoustic work with Department of Defence on many bases with projects ranging from testing of Secret Room facilities to major defence building projects for the delivery of new equipment on multiple bases across Australia.

He has unique experience in noise mapping and policy development for entertainment, retail and residential mixed use precincts including assisting council to develop the Valley Music Harmony Plan and South Bank Parklands noise management.

David has extensive experience in industrial noise and vibration which has been built on his earlier work on the construction of a major Central Queensland power station. His industrial experience includes: environmental licence conditions, environmental audits and reporting, noise monitoring, occupational noise surveys, and design of treatments for – transportation infrastructure, major processing facilities, industry projects and the mining, oil, gas and energy sector.

He has a wide range of environmental and transport project experience providing noise and vibration assessments, noise modelling and design of mitigation strategies for railway and road corridors, commercial and industrial developments, educational institutions, light rail systems, aviation developments, and shipping and dredging.

His experience with residential and commercial developments has included: planning issues, construction and operational noise and vibration for the – retail, automotive, residential, entertainment, accommodation, and commercial sectors including marinas, World Expo’88, Southbank parklands, sporting facilities, funeral homes, childcare centres, aged care facilities, and industrial estates.

He has acted as an Expert Witness in Queensland and interstate, covering cases involving quarries, general industry, abattoirs, retail/ food outlet, service stations, residential unit developments, licensed premises, and landscape supplies.

David has been an invited speaker at various events and has presented papers at national and international conferences.

Dave is a Principal noise engineer, with extensive experience in major infrastructure projects. He undertakes environmental noise impact assessments, and designs noise control treatments to achieve compliance with relevant requirements.

Dave Davis has years experience in noise assessment and management on numerous projects throughout South-East Asia, including major environmental impact statements, negotiation of environmental licence conditions, and design of noise mitigation for major transportation corridors, commercial enterprises and industrial facilities.

Dave has been the technical discipline leader for acoustics on some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in Australia including the Airport Link tunnel in Brisbane, the Ipswich Motorway Upgrade (Dinmore to Goodna), the Tugun Bypass, the Gippsland Water Factory, the Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant, the Victoria Desalination Plant, and the North-South Interconnector System in Adelaide.

As a qualified Mechanical Engineer specialising in Acoustics, Dave has a particular interest in using innovative techniques to incorporate engineering optimisation principles into the design of environmental noise control treatment strategies, to achieve the required noise control outcomes for the maximum value for money.

John has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry specialising in I.T. project management & system integration, asset management, product integration, process & performance improvement, service assurance management and customised technology solutions.

He contributes particular strengths to Savery &Associates in the areas of environmental noise modelling/visualisation, data analysis, instrumentation hardware and software development.

His specialisations include:

• Data analysis and data management
• Instrumentation hardware & software development and testing
• Industrial & transportation noise modelling & visualisation
• Remote monitoring system development

His noise modelling skills involve the use of SoundPLAN using a range CONCAWE and ISO 9613-2 with experience modelling industrial plant, coal port facilities, tunnel-boring projects, quarries and residential developments.

He has developed software for the integration of meteorological & third-octave baseline noise monitoring data.

His Information Technology Skills include: Programming in C, OpenGL, Python & Visual Basic; Scientific Computation using Matlab, Maple, OpenMP & MPI; Data Analysis & Visualization using MS-Access, Minitab & IBM OpenDX and Web Development in HTML & CSS

Matthew Terlich has years experience in noise and vibration consulting.

His specialisations include:

• Modelling noise emissions - industry & transportation
• Noise impact assessment including use of noise models
• Noise measuring and monitoring assessments
• Noise control assessment and design
• Noise impact isolation of flooring within buildings

His noise modelling skills involve the use of SoundPLAN and other software using a range of noise models, including CONCAWE, ISO 9613-2, CORTN.

He has extensive field experience of noise from transportation infrastructure as well as refineries, power stations, quarries, major processing and mining plants.

He has experience providing noise and vibration assessments, noise modelling and design of mitigation strategies for processing plants, refineries, power stations, quarries & concrete batching plants, transportation infrastructure, industrial & commercial occupational noise exposure and noise emissions from noise recreational activities.

He has provided assessment of structurally transmitted noise in building structures from mechanical plant, architectural acoustic requirements and mechanical services noise control for buildings and building designs to determine the compliance with the Green Star requirements.

He has also provided assessment of speech privacy and intelligibility, including testing.

He has been involved in the committee of the Australian Acoustical Society for the last years, most recently in the role of Chairman.
He represents the Queensland Division as a Federal Councillor.

Smritee Rajaram has years post-graduate experience in Mechanical Design, Research and Development. She has an in-depth understanding of machine dynamics and how to use vibration and noise analysis, together with FEA to design-out the resonances causing problem frequencies in the Sound Power Level Spectrums of mechanical concepts.

Her specialisations include:

• Noise measurement, including sound power level assessments
• Modelling noise emissions – industry and transportation
• Noise reduction – enclosure design, machine isolation and engine re-design
• Use of vibration monitoring for identification of machine faults
• Modelling of components and assembly resonances

Her noise modelling skills involve the use of SoundPLAN and mechanical design skills involve the use of Pro-Engineer Wildfire, Pro-Mechanica and CFDesign.

Smritee has undertaken extensive fieldwork in remote locations for assessment of noise impacts from industrial facilities.

Jeremy Taylor has years experience in noise and vibration consulting.

His specialisations include:

• Noise measuring and monitoring assessments
• Noise control assessment and design
• Modelling of noise emissions

He has extensive field experience of noise and vibration in transportation infrastructure, occupational noise exposure, industrial projects and commercial projects providing assessments, modelling and design of mitigation strategies.

He has experience in assessments of structural and airborne noise in buildings including mechanical plant and services noise emissions and intrusion, speech privacy, speech intelligibility and noise transmission, BCA and architectural acoustic requirements and building design to determine compliance with Green Star criteria.

Her specialisations include:

• Underwater noise measurement
• Underwater noise data analysis
• Underwater acoustic modelling

She has both research and industrial experience in underwater acoustics and she is experienced in underwater acoustic measurement and modelling in both laboratory and field work environment.

She spent 3 and half years doing her Ph.D. in University of Ballarat with Associate professor Adil Bagirov. The subject of Liping’s Ph.D. study is: Subgradient methods for non-smooth non-convex optimization and their application in sound field reconstruction.

In 2010, she took part in the AMSI (Australian Mathematical Science Institution) industry internship programme and worked with a Melbourne company in the VDP (Victorian Desalination Project). She conducted the underwater ambient noise evaluation for VDP. Other than that, she specialized in Matlab programming such as GUI creating, signal processing and data analysis. She is also experienced in industrial noise and vibration calculation including floor vibration, valve and pipe noise calculation and wind farm noise analysis.

Dean has field experience in the measurement of a variety of noise sources in the transport and industry sectors using a variety of sound and weather monitoring instrumentation.

He has experience in the use of sound intensity hardware and software to determine noise emission sources and sound power levels, and in the use of Noise Works and SAMURAI software for the post-processing of data.

Modelling experience includes the use of ISO9613-2, CoRTN and CRN and their application in SoundPLAN and other modelling software to develop noise mitigation strategies.

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Andrea provides Savery & Associates with Accounts Management, Reception and Payroll expertise.

She has many years experience in a diverse group of industries from Stock and Station Agents, Public Service, Accountants, Advertising Agency, Computer, Seafood Processing and Export, Freight Management and Acoustic Consultancy along with administering personal affairs one-on-one.

Andrea's experience includes Accounts Administration (Payable and Receivable), Payroll, In-house Function Management and Travel Diaries along with Executive Assistance to Managing Directors and Business Owners.

She is competent with a vatiety of software packages, including MYOB, EDI Enterprise and Total Synergy.