Old Boston Sub-station - Noise Control Barrier

Architect

EBESA Architects

Project Manager

EBESA and City of Cape Town

Project Value

R 800 000

Project Expertise

Environmental Noise Monitoring

Noise Barrier Design

Tender Preparation and Technical Adjudication

Commissioning Tests

The Project

The old Boston Substation consisted of three 20 MVA transformers. The facility is located within a residential area. The City of Cape Town received complaints from several residents, at neighbouring domestic dwellings, that the noise from the substation was disturbing.

We designed a new barrier for the transformers that would screen the noise they generated. The barrier had a modular design such that it could be dismantled for maintenance of the transformers.

A new substation building was constructed in 2011, for which Mackenzie Hoy Consulting Engineers provided a noise control design. The transformers were moved into the new substation building. There have been no subsequent noise complaints from the nearby domestic dwellings.