Group Leaders

Nick McCabe MESc, PEng, , PE, INCE ASSOCIATE, US Group Leader, SR. ACOUSTICAL CONSULTANT

Nick has been practicing as an acoustical consultant for over 25 years, and has a wide experience predicting, modeling, assessing, measuring and monitoring noise and vibration in a wide variety of contexts and settings. Nick is involved with environmental industrial noise and vibration, and has particular experience related to energy project such as Suncor Sarnia, Chesapeake Energy, and Melancthon Wind Turbine Farm. Nick is involved with noise and vibration from road, rail, air and sea vehicles, dealing with environmental transportation noise, assessing nose at particular sensitive locations or assessing noise and vibration for new transportation projects, and also with the noise and vibration within vehicles Davenport Diamond Project, Hike Metals/Canadian Coast Guard. Nick has years of experience assessing and mitigating structural vibration in industrial and manufacturing settings, often making use of sophisticated dynamic finite element analysis and operating deflection shape analysis. For many years, Nick has lead a team assessing construction noise and vibration impacting buildings, equipment, infrastructure, people and animals. Recent projects of note include the Coxwell Bypass Project,  Eglinton Crosstown Project, ROM, AGO,  Fairbank Silverthorn Storm Trunk Sewer System, Couture Condominium and MacDonald Island Park. Nick has undertaken a number of research efforts examining various aspects of wind turbine noise, and has given presentations in the field at international conferences on the subject.

Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)

Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)

National Council of Acoustical Consultants (NCAC)

“Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and its Control”, 15th International Meeting on Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and its Control, Stratford upon Avon, UK, May 2012.

“Detection and Quantification of Amplitude Modulation in Wind Turbine Noise” Fourth International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise, Rome, Italy, April, 2011.

“Detection and Quantification of Amplitude Modulation in Wind Turbine Noise Through Envelope Analysis”, Master of Engineering Science Thesis, University of Western Ontario, 2010.

“Recent Developments in Assessment Guidelines for Sound from Wind Power Projects in Ontario, Canada with a Comparison to Acoustic Audit Results”, Third International Meeting on Wind Turbine Noise, Aalborg, Denmark, June, 2009.

“Recent Developments in Environmental Assessment Methods for Wind Turbine Noise”,Presented to the Canadian Acoustical Association, October 2008

“Vibration in the Workplace”,Presented to the Occupational Hygiene Association of Ontario, October 2004.

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