 U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration |
Memorandum |
SENT VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
| Subject: | Information: Release of the "FHWA Highway Construction Noise Handbook" | Date: | October 2, 2006 |
| From: | /S/Original signed by April Marchese, Director Office of Natural and Human Environment |
Reply to Attn. of: | HEPN-20 |
| To: | Division Administrators Resource Center Directors Federal Lands Highway Division Engineers |
The Federal Highway Administration is pleased to announce the release of the "FHWA Highway Construction Noise Handbook" (Handbook). This Handbook reflects substantial improvement and changes in addressing highway construction noise that have evolved since the publication of the FHWA Special Report "Highway Construction Noise: Measurement, Prediction and Mitigation" in 1977. The Handbook and its companion CD-ROM address both acoustical and non-acoustical issues associated with highway construction noise.
The objectives of this Handbook and companion CD-ROM are to identify factors that may be considered related to construction noise and provide information associated with references sources. The intent of this Handbook is not to recommend related mitigation techniques for specific projects or types of projects. Rather, it should be used in conjunction with the companion CD-ROM as a type of reference document containing a compendium of factors and issues that may be appropriate to consider in dealing with construction noise. While the Handbook itself provides a summary of the range of issues and factors associated with construction noise, the CD-ROM contains significantly more data associated with relative sources of information. Both the Handbook and the CD-ROM can be downloaded from www.rcnm.us.
Questions and comments on the FHWA RCNM should be directed to Mark Ferroni (mark.ferroni@dot.gov) at 202-366-3233.
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