Neil Huybregts is an Associate with the Melbourne office specialising in community noise impact assessment and environmental noise control.

Neil is one of Australia's leading experts in community noise impact assessment and environmental noise control, having played a central role in noise impact assessments for many major development projects in Victoria.  Neil has also participated in environmental noise policy development for EPA Victoria, the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, the Docklands Authority, the Tasmanian and South Australian governments and VicRoads.

Neil was responsible for developing our method for risk analysis of road traffic noise barriers.  Neil has extensive knowledge of currently available environmental noise prediction models, having undertaken detailed evaluations for VicRoads and Austraods, as well as beta testing for the Bruel & Kjaer Predictor software.

Awards Conferred:

H.Vivien Taylor Memorial Award

Conferred by the Australian Acoustical Society for excellence in a final year project in acosutics.

Walter Boas Memorial Award

Conferred by the Department of Applied Physics, RMIT for excellence in a final year student.

Publications:

"Protecting horses from excessive music noise - a case study" 9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2008, Foxwoods, CT, USA

"Use of built form to mitigate environmental noise" Inter-Noise 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

"Assessing risks associated with simple algorithms for calculating effects due to partial enclosure  of a road" ACOUSTICS 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand

"Application of the New South Wales EPA road traffic noise criteria to heavy vehicle traffic associated with rural industry in Tasmania" Australian Acoustical Society 2004 Conference