Airport Noise and Residential Construction

[jar546]

Does anyone else have similar language in the residential code for your area?

R327.1Airport noise study guidelines.
The Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 14 CFR Part 150 (US Department of Transportation) including revisions through January 2005 and hereby adopted as a guideline for establishing airport noise control. When required by a local government by local ordinance to provide noise attenuation in a new structure or addition to an existing structure near an airport in the area of the local government, the applicant must provide either:

1. 1.A testing certificate from an accredited noise testing lab that a new structure or addition to existing structure built to the submitted engineering plans will achieve an average minimum dBA reduction equal to or greater than the reduction required,
   
   
2. 2.An engineering judgment signed and sealed by an engineer licensed in the State of Florida that the structure or addition built to the submitted engineering plans will achieve an average minimum dBA reduction equal to or greater than the reduction required, or
   
   
3. 3.Plans using the standards contained in “Guidelines for Sound Insulation of Residences Exposed to Aircraft Operations” prepared for the Department of the Navy by Wyle Research and Consulting, Arlington, Virginia, April 2005 on file with the Florida Building Commission.
   

 

[cda]

This city is next to the airport:::







Sec. 14-23. Scope of requirements.
a) For the purpose of this code, every building or structure within aircraft exposure zone “B” as defined by section 74-114 of the City of Euless Code of Ordinances shall be subject to the following noise attenuation requirements.
b) Noise level reduction standards for certain uses. The minimum outdoor-to-indoor noise level reduction for certain building uses within zone “B” shall be 25 decibels (A-weighted) as measured from the center of each room.
Building Use
Minimum Decibel Reduction from Outdoors to Indoors


Residential:

Residential within each unit including transient lodgings
25 dba
Public use:

Schools, hospitals, churches, nursing home
25 dba
c) Certification of plans prior to issuance of building permits. No building permit for any listed building or structure shall be issued unless all plans and specifications accompanying the application for the permit are certified by a registered professional architect or engineer of the State of Texas as meeting the noise level reduction standards required. The following certification shall appear on every sheet of the building plans:
“(Name), a registered professional engineer or architect of the State of Texas, has examined the plans and specification and does hereby certify that when the structure is constructed in accordance with these plans and with quality
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workmanship that the structure will provide a shell isolation rating (S.I.R.) of not less than 25 points.”