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ENVIRONMENTAL AND BUILDING ACOUSTICS, VIBRATION AND NOISE MANAGEMENT

Acoustics and noise/vibration control are key design factors for buildings as features that determine

the quality and liveability of their interior spaces.

Noise and Vibration are key environmental factors in the feasibility of projects ranging from transport

to land development, as well as in building design. A correct noise and vibration assessment and

prediction is paramount in in adapting a project to its needed environmental requirements and a

growing sensitivity in our society.

TMA is an expert consultant with a remarkable international background and the expertise of more

than twenty years of practice in envornmental and building acoustics, acoustic design and noise and

vibration management.

Landscape and urban planning, industrial design, and room acoustics are our areas of expertise.

Among other areas, we are leading consultants in noise and vibration for Airport and High Speed

Railway Planning in Spain, including analysis, prediction, assessment, abatement and control.

THE COMPANY

Tasvalor was founded in 1982 by a group of Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning

professionals. In 1990 all of the company’s environmental services were concentrated in a separate

division under the name Tasvalor Medio Ambiente (TMA).

With the arrival of new associates, in 2002 TMA became an independent corporation. In 2008 TMA,

along with four other experienced partners, TMA created G5 Expertos Ambientales, a holding of

environmental experts with a broad corporate perspective and remarkable international experience.

TMA contributes to G5 as noise, vibration and transportation expert.

CORE VALUES

TMA tries to offer a complex and interdisciplinary vision on all issues related to design, maintaining a

constant reference towards the sensibility and demands of the professional practice in building,

planning and infrastructure.

This holistic approach reaches TMA’s broad catalog of consultancy services, from research to all forms

of assistance, including project design and management.

APPROACH

We are experts in noise and vibration but architects and engineers by training. We work with our

clients, not just for them. Though our job is often labelled as assessment, we like to see it as a

proactive contribution or partnership. We understand the complexity of the design process: legal

requirements, stages, stakeholders, deadlines... we are used to working inside this environment and

try to contribute to making the process simpler for all parties involved.

QUALITY

TMA relies to its Integrated Management System as a guarantee the optimum quality of the services

provided. TMA has implemented a quality system according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 for

testing and calibration laboratories.

Our Acoustics and Vibration laboratory (TMA Lab) is approved and registered as as a Testing

Laboratory for Building Quality in the General Register of the Technical Building Code (CTE) of

Ministerio de Fomento with registration number MAD-L-071.

TMA is accredited as an environmental consultant specialist throughout the Spanish territory,

including those regions with specific record.

TMA holds a Professional Liability Insurance policy with Partner Re, as an additional guarantee of our

work.

SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY

TMA works with the Fundación Ensayo Dos Mil in sponsoring school and university Rugby

TMA annually carries out a number of pro bono work, usually related to improving living conditions in

public schools.

We were certified by AENOR as compliant with the UNE 216301:2007 standard on energy efficiency.

R&D&I, SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION

TMA has developed scientific and technological research and collaboration agreements with various

institutions:

� TMA is Ente Promotor Observador (EPO) in the I3P project "Integrated Employability Itinerary -

I3P", together with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. CSIC (Higher Council for

Scientific Research).

� Agreement on scientific cooperation in the field of acoustics with the Laboratory of Acoustics and

Vibration of the Universidad de Cádiz.

� Framework Agreement for Scientific and Technological Cooperation with the Agustín de

Betancourt Foundation of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos Canales y

Puertos (Civil Engineers) of the Polytechnical University of Madrid.

� Framework Agreements of Cooperation with the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Universidad

Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, for the delivery of courses, master's

degrees and the enhancement of academic and future professional performance through student

practice.

PARTNERSHIPS

� TMA is a member of the Spanish Association of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

� TMA is a member of the Spanish Society of Acoustics, Sociedad Española de Acústica (SEA).

� TMA has participated in the Working Groups of BREEAM Spain together with the Universidad

Politécnica de Madrid.

� Sponsor TMA is founder and partner of the Asociación Ecómetro.

� TMA is a member of SANNAS, business association for the three P’s balance (People, Planet,

Profit).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: BUILDING ACOUSTICS

Our professional activity covers the fields of environmental and noise applied acoustics. Within the

first we are experts in the management and control of urban noise, noise and vibration infrastructure

(transport and industry). In the second group we include building and room acoustics.

A comprehensive and integrated technical assistance aimed at both building design teams as

developers / construction companies; in all matters relating to:

� Acoustic design, reverberation control, sound absorption and intelligibility. Variable

acoustics. Electro-acoustics.

� Design procedures and requirements in the acoustic and vibratory field derived from the

european Union directives 2010/31/UE and 85/384/CEE, and of the Spanish Technical

Building Code (CTE DB-HR) as well as other regional and local regulations: airborne sound

insulation, impact noise, vibrations

� Comprehensive audit work and noise and vibration certification of buildings. verification of

acoustic parameters: acoustic airborne sound insulation, noise index of façades, impact

noise, noise and vibration facilities, reverb, sound absorption.

� Training: courses at various professional levels.

Above: Acoustic conditioning of the main hall at Badajoz University (TMA – Dionisio Hernández Gil, Arquitecto 2008) Left: Varese Auditorium (Varese, Italy) (TMA - Pardo y Tapia Arquitectos, 2015).

ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTICS

The progressive implementation of new technical regulations and procedures aimed at the protection

of the sound environment, has created a comprehensive framework of legal reference for both urban

professionals and administrations with urban and environmental responsibilities.

There is an increasing number of european administrations with specific legislation regarding noise

pollution, as well as a number of legal standards at national and European level as the 37/2003 Noise

Law of the Spanish Ministry of Environment, emanating from the Directive 2002/49/EC relating to the

assessment and management of environmental noise (the Environmental Noise Directive – END), all

of which demand the development and application of methods for the study of the noise impact on

land use and urban planning. The recent Directive 2015/996/EC, sets new common methods for

assessing environmental noise.

Since 1990 TMA has been offering an intense consultancy activity in acoustics. Today we are one of

the few companies able to provide a comprehensive assistance in Environmental Acoustics and

problems associated with territorial planning in Spain and abroad.

Our activity in the field of environmental acoustics is articulated as a comprehensive technical

assistance aimed at teams of urban planners, industrial engineering or infrastructure designers and

developers, public administration, law firms etc.

TRANSPORT ACOUSTICS

TMA provides a comprehensive technical assistance in transport acoustics both to teams responsible

for the engineering design (railways, roads and airports) as to those responsable of traffic

management.

TMA is the ideal partner that will help you meet any requirement at national or international level,

regarding environmental impact and particularly noise and vibration:

� Acoustic impact studies of roads, airports and maritime infrastructures.

New executive airport in Madrid (El Álamo – Navalcarnero) Acoustic prediction. Equipo ARGONGRA. 2007

� Noise and vibration impact studies of urban and interurban railway lines.

� Acoustic and vibration impact studies for high speed rail projects, from the feasibility studies

to the final design.

� Acoustic protection design for linear infrastructures.

� Airport noise monitoring.

� Strategic noise maps of linear infrastructures, ports, and airports.

� Training: courses on transportation noise at various professional levels.

A7 Highay Strategic Noise Map for the Ministerio de Fomento. 2007.

EQUIPMENT (ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION)

� Brüel & Kjaer Pulse LAN XI 3052 – B SYSTEM, for vibrational analysis FTT and 3-

channel overall.

� Brüel & Kjaer 2145 digital filter and FTT two-channel spectral analyzer.

� Brüel & Kjaer 2260A Investigator® sound analyzer.

� Brüel & Kjaer 2238 Mediator® sound level meter.

� Brüel & Kjaer integrated Noise Measurement Station System (2 units).

� Brüel & Kjaer DeltaTron 4506 triaxial accelerometer.

� Brüel & Kjaer 1700A and WH 3451 filters for measuring vibrations.

� Brüel & Kjaer 4443 dose meter.

� Brüel & Kjaer 4231 portable calibrator.

� Brüel & Kjaer 2250 Hand-held Analyzer.

� Brüel & Kjaer 4292 Sound Sources for Building

Acoustics: OmnipowerTM

Sound Source.

� Brüel & Kjaer 2716 Power Amplifier.

� Brüel & Kjaer 3592 Outdoor Gear.

� Brüel & Kjaer 3207 Tapping Machine.

Noise control units for the Granada municipality (Spain)

SOFTWARE (ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION)

� Brüel & Kjaer B&K 5306 for data analisys.

� Brüel & Kjær Evaluator 7820. Version 4.13 for environmental noise analysis

� Brüel & Kjær. PREDICTOR 7810, Version 6.0 for environmental noise prediction and assessment.

� Brüel & Kjær LimA7 7812B, Version 5.1. lareg scale environmental noise prediction and assessment

� Brüel & Kjær DIRAC 7841, Version 3.1. Software de Acústica de Arquitectónica para la caracterización

de recintos acústicos.

� Brüel & Kjær Qualifier. Version 2.10. data transmssion software for 2250 sonometers..

� Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.A.) INM, Integrated Noise Model, Versión 6.2.a. Airport noise

prediction and analysis.

� SEMIBEL (Modeles Suisse des Emissions et des Inmissions pour le Calcul du Bruit des Chemins de Fer)

Versión 1.1 Railway noise prediction and analysis.

� TNO Institute (Neederlands) Railway Noise Information System. Versión 2.6. Railway noise prediction

and analysis.

� Federal Highway Administration (U.S.A.) Traffic Noise Model Prediction software for noise barrier design.

Noise study for the new BBVA headquarters in Sanchinarro (Madrid) for Herzog & deMeuron Architects, 2012

CLIENTS

Herzog & DeMeuron

Spatium,

OTHER FIELDS OF WORK

TMA activity extends to other fields of environmental consultancy, as atmospheric air quality,

hydrology and hydrobiology, landscape, traffic and transport, environmental quality of soil and

groundwater, environmental assessment, sustainability and energy efficiency.

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Acuerdo de colaboración

tecnológica con el

Laboratorio de Acústica y

Vibraciones de la

Universidad de Cádiz

Miembro de la Asociación

Española de Evaluación

de Impacto Ambiental

Ente Promotor

Observador (EPO) del

proyecto I3P del

Consejo Superior de

Investigaciones

Científicas.

Convenio de investigación

con la Fundación Agustín

de Betencourt de la E.T.S.

de Ingenieros de Caminos

Canales y Puertos de

Madrid.

Miembro de la Sociedad

Española de Acústica