Level 10/201 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Ph. (02) 9320 9320
Fax.(03) 9320 9321

www.arup.com

360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne VIC

Ph.03-96636811

Consultants

Part of the global ARUP group, they have been splashing advice around Australia since the very early sixties. Possibly best know for their involvement with the Milad tower in Tehran (at 434 meters, close to the highest in the world). The whole sound system designed using a single 4" speaker (just kidding about the speaker - it might have been an 8"). Worldwide, they actually have a staff of over 500 and a turnover in excess of $60 million a year (so it's going to be damn hard to tell you that they operate from a serviced office isn't it). Like most of these companies, their biggest jobs come from offshore, particularly the Asian market.

They have a Soundlab in Melbourne that simulates acoustics which allows architects to 'listen' to their buildings. It is to help architects, developers and designers "listen" to their new buildings before the building begins. The Sounslab is a room with panel walls. A large projection screen is propped at one end. In the middle is a seat, which is surrounded by 12 strategically placed speakers. Behind the panels are banks of processors that drive the acoustic modelling software - Odeon developed at the Technical University of Denmark, and Catt, developed at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Arup Acoustics also uses its SoundLabs in the design of technical applications such as audio visual systems or environmental ones, such as tempering the noise levels of freeway traffic within a proposed building.