Detroit Acoustic Consultant
Soundscape Engineering LLC is an engineering consulting firm specializing in acoustics, noise, and vibration control. We serve clients in Detroit and Southeast Michigan from our office in Ann Arbor. We are one of only two companies in Michigan, and the only company in Southeast Michigan, that has met the requirements for membership in the National Council of Acoustical Consultants. Firm Partners, Nathan Sevener and Mandy Kachur, are involved with every project, ensuring that clients receive responsive service, attention to detail, and practical recommendations. Ms. Kachur is a State of Michigan licensed engineer and a Board Certified Member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. She and Mr. Sevener have consulted on numerous projects in Southeast Michigan and throughout the State. Ms. Kachur can be contacted by phone or by sending an email to the inquiries address, below.
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Most Recent News & Editorials
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Kachur appointed to Noise Control Engineering Journal Associate Editor
Mandy Kachur has been selected as an associate editor of the prestigious internationally recognized Noise Control Engineering Journal, a publication by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. As the Associate Editor of Book Reviews, Mandy's responsibility will be to locate candidate publications on noise control engineering, coordinate volunteers to assess the books and provide a written review, and edit the reviews for the Journal. She will be working for the Managing Editor, James Thompson, and is taking over the position from Richard Peppin. More information on the Journal can be found here.
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Special Vendor Session at Noise-Con 2017
by Mandy Kachur
Erin Dugan and Mandy Kachur organized and led a special conference session at the Institute of Noise Control Engineering’s 2017 national conference, Noise-Con, which took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan in June. This unique session enabled vendors to present information about their products to a technically focused audience with the responsibility of specifying products or purchasing instrumentation. The session was well received and a similar session is planned for the 2018 international noise control conference, Inter-Noise, in Chicago. More information about the conferences can be found here.
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Soundscape Provides Sound Isolation Design for Residence Inn
by Mandy Kachur
Soundscape Engineering is pleased to have been part of the design team for the first new downtown Ann Arbor hotel in several decades, the Residence Inn by Marriott. The developer, First Martin Corporation, required that an acoustics consultant be hired for analysis and compliance with Marriott's extensive acoustical specifications for their properties.
We provided the sound isolation design for guest room, meeting room, lobby, fitness center and retail adjacencies, and for spaces below rooftop mechanical equipment. Mitigation of mechanical equipment noise