Mandy Kachur
Principal Acoustics Consultant & Firm Partner
PE, INCE Bd. Cert.
Since 1991, Mandy Kachur has worked as an acoustics and noise control engineer. She is responsible for all aspects of architectural acoustics project work and client development in addition to engineering analysis and measurement in room acoustics, sound isolation, building systems noise control, and community noise control.
She has worked on over 500 architectural projects in the healthcare, university, K-12, corporate, research and development, government, hospitality, multi-family, performing arts, recording spaces, worship, and industrial sectors.
In addition to working for acoustics consulting firms, she has also been an in-house acoustics specialist at a medium-sized Detroit architectural/engineering firm, where daily integration into multi-discinplinary project teams heightened her sensitivity to the need for practical acoustical solutions that mesh with all aspects of a project's design.
Mandy is a Board-Certified Member and Fellow of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE). She is the leader of the acoustics committee that contributes to the Facilities Guidelines Institute (FGI) Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities.
She has served as an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University along with being an invited lecturer at other universities, was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Engineering: Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, and has published and presented at INCE conferences, at Acoustical Society of America meetings, at ASHRAE meetings, and in the peer reviewed American Journal of Nursing. She is also a violinist in the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra and enjoys photography, birding, hiking, and traveling.