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The NDCS acoustic tool kit has been revised and now includes Acoustic quality marks, which are now available online on NDCS website at www.ndcs.org.uk/acoustics. This is a self assessed way that a school can show which areas are suitable for use by the hearing impaired, and therefore provide an easy way to show that they have achieved the in-use requirements of the School Premises Regulations (Regulation 7). These enhanced acoustic conditions, that are suitable for use by the hearing impaired, also benefit everyone using them. For assistance with completing an acoustic audit of your school, or for help checking that the information you have is suitable to qualify for use of the Acoustic Mark, please contact Peter Rogers.

Sustainable Acoustics provided the technical evidence to the petitions committee of the Welsh Assembly in December 2014, as part of the NDCS submission and request to make sure that school acoustics standards are being implemented in Welsh Schools. Currently acoustic testing is not mandatory in the new schools to be built, unless it is required as part of the building contract. As a result, the minimum standards are not always achieved in practice. The committee will now gather evidence from other sources and consider the submission. We will report back with news of the feedback.