Site Enclosure Hire: Protection Against Noise, Dust and Weather

When demolition takes place next to a hospital, a school or a residential building, a site fence with mats is often not enough. An enclosure made of acoustic sheeting screens the site all round – at the sides and, if required, from above as well.

It protects in three ways:

• against noise, for example during demolition works
• against construction dust, for instance near data centres or clean rooms
• against wind and weather, for example during excavations

We adapt the enclosure to your project and hire it out for the duration of your works.

Walls or roof – depending on the noise source

Enclosures made of acoustic sheeting are an effective measure against construction noise. They can be built as sound-insulating walls or as a roof over the works.

This makes sense for everything that gets really loud on site: demolition and pneumatic hammers, excavators, plate compactors and rollers, circular and cut-off saws, concrete mixers, cranes and lorry traffic.

The legal background in Germany

Construction noise cannot be avoided entirely, but neighbours do not have to accept everything. In Germany the general administrative regulation on construction noise (AVV Baulärm) sets guideline values that depend on the type of area and the time of day, with stricter values at night. Clients, contractors and site managers are expected to use low-noise machinery, plan its use efficiently and screen noise as well as possible – if necessary with mobile noise barriers or an enclosure.

Typical locations

• sites next to hospitals, schools or care homes
• construction work at night
• demolition in the middle of the city
• excavations that have to be protected from the weather
• work close to data centres or clean rooms

Further temporary noise control solutions

• Acoustic sheeting for scaffolding
• Mobile noise walls up to about 6 m
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