The Team

• - Developers at Braunstein + Berndt develop the program to specifications of SoundPLAN users worldwide

• - In-House Consultants at Braunstein + Berndt use SoundPLAN daily and test it in the noise control praxis

• - Braunstein + Berndt and SoundPLAN LLC are located in different time zones, so we cover much of the globe's business day

• - Our partners worldwide are trained in the use and support of SoundPLAN

Price and Performance

• - SoundPLAN is competitively priced - no tricks with limiting the number of objects 

• - SoundPLAN is modular so the user only needs to buy licenses for the modules they need

• - SoundPLAN can be extended via a code or a small setup file transmitted via e-mail

• - Even the smallest package is designed to earn money for the user on any size project

• - SoundPLAN is delivered with a comprehensive handbook

• - User language: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Finnish and Japanese (soon Chinese and Portugese)

Program Organization and General Set Up

• - SoundPLAN consists of many independent modules which can run concurrently - calculate while you edit other data

• - A SoundPLAN Manager is responsible for general selections and set ups and the project administration

• - Each workspace has a screen layout specially adapted to the task to be performed

• - Updates from the web

Geo-DB

• - Organization of the data Situation

• - Controls are specific to the task, not everything crammed into one screen

• - No need to start a new road or rail line because the speed, etc., has changed

• - Editing functions for coordinates and attributes

• - Calculations from Indoor to Outdoor

• - Structured data entry for industrial buildings (sound pressure inside, different transmissions for -different materials (walls, windows..))

• - Libraries for spectral information, directivities (2D, 2D rotational sym., 3D), hours of operation and other items

• - Accepts octaves and third octave spectra in any filtering (dB, dB(A).. dB(D))

• - Fully integrated with Indoor calculations

• - Import of model data from other data sources with a multitude of tools to bring the data into the form needed 

Calculations

• - Records every calculation in a log book, every result file "knows" when and how the results were generated

• - Fast, accurate calculations

• - Scalable application with distributed computing for Grid Noise Maps, Facade Noise Maps, MISKAM

• - Run file organized as a spread sheet with all parameters saved so the job is traceable and repeatable

• - Calculation logbook with run times, data types, settings and warning/error messages

• - User configurable noise assessment

• - New noise mapping techniques for inner city to cope with narrow streets where noise levels are very close to the source lines

Documentation

• - All user adjustable spreadsheets are delivered with the program, no need to export to Excel or others unless you want to 

• - Expert Spreadsheet to compare multiple calculation runs

• - Formula Generator to calculate values of new columns from user entered formulas and all existing columns

• - Scalable output from just the receiver list to the full fledged calculation protocol

Graphics

• - Very flexible object setup lets user adjust map appearance to company standards

• - Templates can be generated at will

• - Boxes with parent child relationship

• - Multiple drawings in one sheet

• - Calculations with map add/subtract.... own formula generator

• - Level Charts help understand where the noise comes from

• - Multitude of map types: Grid Noise Map, City Noise Map, Grid Cross-sectional Map, Facade Noise Map...

• - Animated Maps - Drive through the noise map

• - Composite output of bitmaps, noise maps and vector data

Optimization of noise control

• - Wall Dimensioning for a multitude of receivers at the same time

• - Expert System for industrial noise