Wakefield Acoustics Ltd.

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Wakefield Acoustics Ltd. is a consulting engineering firm specializing in noise control and acoustical design. Its principal areas of practice are: community/environmental noise impact assessment and control, architectural acoustics and building noise/vibration control, occupational noise exposure assessment and control. Wakefield Acoustics Ltd. also provides assistance to government agencies in the development and implementation of noise control regulations and by-laws, to industry in the establishment of occupational noise control/hearing conservation programs. We can also provide expert witness services in all of the above noted fields.

Wakefield Acoustics Ltd. is member of the Consulting Engineers of
B.C. and the National Association of Acoustical Consultants.

The firm's president, Mr. Clair Wakefield, P.Eng., graduated from the University of B.C. in 1973 with a M.A.Sc. degree in
Mechanical Engineering specializing in engineering acoustics.
Since then he has gained over 30 years of experience as an acoustical consultant and as a highway noise control specialist with the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Highways (MoTH). In
1989 and 1993 Mr. Wakefield developed and revised the noise impact mitigation policy used by the MoTH.

Since its formation in 1988, Wakefield Acoustics Ltd. has conducted noise impact assessments and prepared mitigation designs for many major new highway facilities including the
Inland Island Highway along the eastern side of Vancouver Island, the Nanaimo Parkway, the Victoria Western Approaches, the
Lonsdale and Westview Interchanges in North Vancouver, and the
Cassiar Connector and Trans Canada Highway HOV Lanes in
Vancouver. The firm also assessed the community noise impact and developed mitigation measures for the rehabilitation of Vancouver's histoirc Lions Gate Bridge. Currently the firm is involved in several major hihgway porjects in the Greater Vancouver area including the New Fraser River Crossing, the South Fraser Perimeter Road and the Sea to Sky Highway Improvement Project.

Wakefield Acoustics has conducted or reviewed community noise impact asssessments of various airport facilities including the Vancouver International Airport Parallel Runway Project, Victoria International Airport and the Victoria Harbour Water Aerodrome.

Wakefield Acoustics has provided noise control and acoustical design services for a large number of residential, commercial and institutional buildings including the Richard Blanshard and Jack
Davis buildings in Victoria for BCBC, the Edward Milne Community
School in Sooke B.C. and the Hayes River Convention and
Performing Arts Centre and the Juan de Fuca (Bear Mountain) Arena in Victoria.

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