About CCi Acoustical Testing
Data Center Site Acoustics Noise Map Validation and Compliance
Our testing validates the noise maps created with Site Acoustics, Cambridge Collaborative's own ISO 9613 noise-mapping software — confirming the modeled dB(A) sound-level contours across a facility and its neighboring receptors to ensure noise-level compliance and guide targeted mitigation.
We currently offer the following:
Data Center Noise Testing & Compliance Validation
As data center operators face increasingly stringent noise regulations and environmental mandates, Cambridge Collaborative provides comprehensive acoustic testing services to validate your facility's compliance and support your noise mitigation strategies.
As a critical service for modern data center operations, Cambridge Collaborative provides specialized acoustic and vibration testing designed to:
- Validate noise prediction models created with Site Acoustics ISO 9613 software
- Ensure regulatory compliance with local noise ordinances and environmental mandates
- Characterize dominant noise sources (CRAC/CRAH units, power distribution, cooling systems)
- Measure noise propagation paths through facility structures and boundaries
- Support noise remediation strategies with field-validated acoustic data
- Document compliance efforts for environmental agencies and stakeholders
Our testing methodology directly feeds back into your Site Acoustics models, creating a validated foundation for ongoing compliance and predictive design optimization.
Standard Acoustic Testing
- measuring high-frequency damping
- reverberant acoustic chamber testing
- wind tunnel testing
- free-field acoustic testing
- reverberation time / absorption testing
- general damping measurements
- impedance measurements
- testing of dominant airborne and structureborne noise sources
- testing of dominant airborne and structureborne transmission mechanisms
Field Testing
Electric power generators and enclosures using the following standards:
- SAE J1074 Engine Sound Level Standard
- European Commission 2000/14/EC CE Directive
- EN ISO 3744: Acoustics - Determination Of Sound Power Levels Of Noise Sources Using Sound Pressure : Engineering Method In An Essentially Free Field Over A Reflecting Plane
- ISO 8528-10: Reciprocating internal combustion engine driven alternating current generating sets
- Ground vehicles
- Rail systems
- Heavy machinery
Aerospace testing
- Acoustic qualification and acceptance tests for spacecraft
- Simulating acoustic loads to determine transfer functions and component response levels
Vehicle interior noise and transfer path correlation
- anechoic or free-field simulated acoustic sources
- reverberant field excitation of vehicle
- structural excitations and resulting structureborne noise and vibration
- extensive experience designing and overseeing wind tunnel validation testing for vehicle interior noise and transfer path correlation.