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01. Introduction………………………………………………… 3
02. Objectives ………………………………………………….. 3
03. Methodology ………………………………………............. 3
3.1 General Conditions of monitoring …………………….. 3
3.2 Monitoring Procedure …………………………………. 4
3.3 Specification for acceptable vibration and noise levels.. 5

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1. Introduction

.The company undertakes Environmental monitoring for construction activities

including Ground Vibration Monitoring and Noise monitoring programs as an
Independent third party where piling activities are conducted. This document includes
the methodology of conducting the vibration and noise monitoring for

2. Objectives

Monitoring of effects of the piling activities in accordance with the stipulated

conditions provided by international standards.

Monitoring, Documentation and reporting of the possible effects from piling with pre-
determined parameters, i.e. Ground Vibration in mm/s, Noise levels in dB.

3. Methodology

Monitoring shall be carried out using Instantel Miniature Plus vibration and noise
measuring instrument. Data will be stored automatically once a vibration or noise
occurs and the data stored in the data logger can be downloaded to a PC for processing
the data. The data downloaded from data logger shall be analysed using a software
called Balstware.

3.1. General conditions of monitoring

The monitoring points shall be agreed between the piling contractors, main contractor
and monitoring team and the same will be communicated to the client.

Piling activities should only be conducted based on given permitted guidelines.

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3.2 Monitoring Procedure

Two Monitoring options are proposed in the drawing (ELS-ML-TS-006). Both
options are described in below.
Option 01
Proposal for CUC Building area test Pile.
Total 05nos monitoring points are prosed to measure the vibration and noise. The
distance between the sources are 20m,35m,50m,75m,100m

Option 02
This Option is proposed for the monitor Zone B area test pile.
In-between the pile points and the 1st monitoring point, “V-Ditch” is used to reduce
the surface vibration.
All the other monitoring points are same with the option 01.

Ground Vibration and Noise Level supposed to be measured by third party testing
authority with their instrument.

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 3.3 Specification for acceptable vibration and noise levels

The maximum permissible levels for each parameter will be as follows.

The reference for the maximum vibration level shall be in accordance with Table
B.2 of BS 5228-Part 2:2009. Accordingly, Peak Particle Velocity shall not exceed
50mm/sec at frequency of 4Hz and above.

The reference for the noise level shall be in accordance with Table E1 of BS 5228:
Part 1: 2009. Accordingly, for Category C type structures (which is applicable for
the construction site at VIA),

The threshold values will be as

follows. During day time 75 dB
During night time 55dB

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