ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

ECW 568
OPEN-ENDED LAB REPORT

TITLE OF EXPERIMENT : NOISE LEVEL

DATE OF EXPERIMENT : 06/03/2019
GROUP :
FARAH HANIS BINTI MUSTAFA
GROUP MEMBERS 1. (2017677682)
HASNIZAH BINTI HAMDAN
2. (2017677824)
NASRIN NUR QASDINA BINTI AMALUDDIN
3. (2017677844)
NURUL SHAHIRAH BINTI ATAN
4. (2017677694)
CHRIS ELIAZER MALIK
5. (2017677706)

LECTURER : FAUZI BIN BAHARUDIN

LEVEL OF OPENESS : 1

MARKS COMMENTS
INTRODUCTION
BASIC CONCEPTS
METHODOLOGY
RESULTS&ANALYSIS 1 2 3 4 5
DISCUSSION 1 2 3 4 5
CONCLUSION 1 2 3 4 5
ORGANIZATION 1 2 3 4 5

TOTAL MARKS
ECW 568 : ENVIROMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

TITLE: NOISE LEVEL

INTRODUCTION

Noise is derived from the latin word “nausea” implying “unwanted sound” or “sound that is
loud, unpleasant or unexpected. Noise originated from nature and human activities. In nature
we rarely hear noise unless it was from natural disaster such as thunder storm, landslides,
flood, volcanic eruption and other geological process. As for human activities, we constantly
hear noise due to urbanization, development of transport and industrial growth. Though the
urban population is much more affected by such pollution, however, small town and rural
area along side road and industries are also victim of this problem. Nowdays, noise is
becoming an increasingly omnipresent, yet unnoticeable form of pollution even in developed
countries.

In order to further understand this issue, a noise level study usually conducted by
environmental department at several possible highly noise polluted area. Upon finishing this
study, tabulation of noise level reading is prepared to identify the pollution pattern and come
up with few solution to minimize and control noise pollution.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this test are to measure the level of noise at selected study location and to
analyze and interpret the data of this experiment.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

UiTM Shah alam is known to be one of the busiest campus. With the increase of student’s
enrolment, high traffic volume is expected surrounding the campus and this significantly
contribute to noise pollution. High noise level from the traffic will cause disturbance to the
learning process in classroom. Perform a relevant experiment to learn process in classroom.

BASIC CONCEPT

In this experiment, the noise is measured by using sound level meter. In order to get the
reading, student required to go at selected locations. The sound level meter will use dBA if
the location is situated at close place while dBC if the location is situated at outside or open
area.

The sound level meter will detect vibration in air which commonly known as sound.
The vibration is then translated into decibel reading and the sound level meter will show the
decibel values. As precaution, the testing should be done on good weather and surrounding
condition as the reading might be affected by temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure,
wind, dust and magnetic field.

METHODOLOGY

APPARATUS

I. Noise level meter

II. Safety Vest

PROCEDURES

1. The noise level meter was switched on and the desired Response Time (Fast or Slow)
and Frequency Weighting (C) were selected.

2. The desired range was selected.

3. Hold the instrument comfortably in hand or position on tripod. Point the microphone
toward the noise source, the sound pressure level will be displayed on the meter’s
LCD display.

4. When MAX (maximum hold) mode is selected by pressing the MAX key, the
instrument captures and holds the maximum noise level reading on the display. Press
the MAX key again to clear the MAX reading.

5. The experiment is conduct at 5 different study location.

6. The data was recorded for every 30 sec of 10 min (each location) and tabulated.
Parking Lot for Motorcycle near (B1) In front bus stop Dataran Cendekia

In Front of Kolej Melati At Parking Lot (B2)

RESULT & ANALYSIS

DATA AND ANALYSIS

Day: Wednesday Date: 06/03/19

Time: 10:20am – 11:20am Weather: Sunny day

Range: 30-130 dB A/C: C

Location 1 Location 2
Time taken Reading of noise level Time taken Reading of noise level
(min) (dB) (min) (dB)
0.5 80.1 0.5 79.4
1.0 73.2 1.0 74.5
1.5 71.6 1.5 71.2
2.0 72.6 2.0 81.2
2.5 74.5 2.5 83.5
3.0 74.7 3.0 79.5
3.5 72.4 3.5 75.5
4.0 77.3 4.0 73.9
4.5 71.8 4.5 88.4
5.0 81.5 5.0 75.5
5.5 76.4 5.5 82.7
6.0 76.9 6.0 76.9
6.5 72.8 6.5 70.6
7.0 72.6 7.0 78.0
7.5 73.6 7.5 78.8
8.0 74.5 8.0 87.4
8.5 79.2 8.5 81.1
9.0 76.5 9.0 80.0
9.5 78.8 9.5 83.3
10.0 71.3 10.0 84.5
 Location 3 Location 4
Time taken Reading of noise level Time taken Reading of noise level
(min) (dB) (min) (dB)
0.5 74.9 0.5 71.6
1.0 74.8 1.0 71.4
1.5 81.4 1.5 72.5
2.0 75.4 2.0 73.7
2.5 79.2 2.5 76.4
3.0 68.9 3.0 72.4
3.5 74.8 3.5 70.6
4.0 86.8 4.0 70.4
4.5 72.9 4.5 74.7
5.0 74.1 5.0 70.6
5.5 73.0 5.5 78.0
6.0 85.3 6.0 68.7
6.5 74.1 6.5 65.9
7.0 70.9 7.0 72.2
7.5 74.7 7.5 74.9
8.0 77.6 8.0 76.2
8.5 71.6 8.5 72.7
9.0 80.4 9.0 74.4
9.5 71.4 9.5 70.7
10.0 76.7 10.0 73.4
 Location 5
Time taken Reading of noise level
(min) (dB)
0.5 71.6
1.0 64.3
1.5 62.6
2.0 61.6
2.5 64.0
3.0 64.0
3.5 64.0
4.0 77.0
4.5 70.5
5.0 81.0
5.5 65.5
6.0 65.0
6.5 65.5
7.0 74.0
7.5 68.2
8.0 65.1
8.5 70.3
9.0 73.2
9.5 72.6
10.0 69.5
Interpretation of data

Graph of Percentage of Readings (%) against Noise

Level (dB) for Location 1
14

12
Percentage of readings (%)

10

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise level (dB)

Graph of Percentage of Readings (%) against Noise

Level (dB) for Location 2
8

7
Percentage of readings (%)

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise Level (dB)
 Graph of Percentage of Readings (%) against
Noise Level (dB) for Location 3
12
Percentage of Readings (%)

10

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise Level (dB)

Graph of Percentage of Readings (%) against

Noise Level (dB) for Location 4
16

14
Percentage of Readings (%)

12

10

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise Level (dB)
 Graph of Percentage of Readings (%) against Noise
Level (dB) for Location 5
7

6
Percentage of Readings (%)

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise Level (dB)

Data for all readings at all locations:

Noise Middle No.of total Percentage of total Cumulative

Group noise readings readings (%) percentage (%)
60-64.9 62.45 6 6 6
65-69.9 67.45 9 9 15
70-74.9 72.45 48 48 63
75-79.9 77.45 21 21 84
80-84.9 82.45 13 13 97
85-89.9 87.45 3 3 100
TOTAL 100 100 -
 Graph of the Percentage of Total Readings (%) against
Noise Level (dB)
60
Percentage of total readings (%)

50

40

30

20

10

0
55-59.9 60-64.9 65-69.9 70-74.9 75-79.9 80-84.9 85-89.9
Noise Level (dB)

Graph of Cumulative Frequancy (%) against Noise

Level (dB)
120
Cumulative Percentage (%)

100

80

60

40

20

0
57.45 62.45 67.45 72.45 77.45 82.45 87.45 92.45
Noise Level (dB)
DISCUSSION

Noise is unwanted sound judged to be unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a

physics standpoint, noise is indistinguishable from sound, as both are vibrations through a
medium, such as air or water. The difference arises when the brain receives and perceives a
sound. The objectives of our test is to measure the noise level at certain location using the
noise level meter to analyse whether the sound level suit the standard for classroom as the
need to provide conducive environment for students in classroom.

We have chosen 5 locations in the surrounding area of Faculty of Civil Engineering and we
analyse the data based on the percentage of total noise level reading. Based on the results that
we gained, from the graph of percentage of total reading (%) against noise level(dB), it shows
that the higher percentage of total readings are in the range of 70-74.9 dB and the maximum
reading of the noise level meter of all locations is 88.4dB ( location 2). The standard
acceptable noise level for educational (classroom) is in the range of 50dB to 65dB as to
provide a conducive environment for the students. This proves that the surroundings noise
level of the classroom are not suitable for the environment thus can cause disturbance to the
learning process in classroom.

Based on our observation, traffic noise, construction, maintenance and laboratory works
contribute to higher noise level measured (environmental noise). Traffic noise is the major
factor as the volume of traffic are higher especially in peak hour. This environmental noise
could effect the learning process of the students in classroom such as losing focus and having
difficulty in understanding what the lecturer said due to the noise.

When conducting the experiment, there might be some issues which lead to inaccurate result of
measuring traffic noise, for example, there might be some sound like wind or surrounding near
disturbing the instrument since the instrument is sensitive to all kind of sound. To get an
accurate result, some precaution that can be suggested are make sure that during the pointing of
instrument to noise source, check the surrounding so that no potential disturbance can occur.