Unclassified Southwest Metro – Marrickville, Canterbury and Lakemba Station Upgrades Noise and Vibration Management Plan Sydney Metro Integrated Management System (IMS) Applicable to: City & Southwest Document Owner: Southwest Metro System Owner: - Status: Final Version: Rev03 Date of issue: 25 January 2021 Review date: 25 January 2021 © Sydney Metro 2020 Unclassified Unclassified Sydney Metro – Integrated Management System (IMS) (Uncontrolled when printed) Table of contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 8 1.1. Context and scope of this Sub-plan ............................................................. 8 1.2. Project background ...................................................................................... 9 1.3. Objectives and targets ................................................................................. 9 1.4. NVMP and supporting documents ............................................................. 10 1.5. Consultation ............................................................................................... 11 2. Legal and other requirements ............................................................................... 13 2.1. Policies, Standards and Guidelines ........................................................... 13 2.2. Conditions of Approval ............................................................................... 14 2.3. Environment Protection Licence ................................................................ 21 2.4. Roles and responsibilities .......................................................................... 21 3. Existing environment and proposed works ........................................................ 24 3.1. Existing environment .................................................................................. 24 3.2. Existing noise levels ................................................................................... 26 3.3. Proposed construction works ..................................................................... 27 4. Aspects and potential impacts ............................................................................. 33 4.1. Receiver sensitivity .................................................................................... 33 5. Construction noise and vibration criteria ............................................................ 35 5.1. Construction hours ..................................................................................... 35 5.2. General construction noise and vibration criteria ....................................... 36 5.3. Airborne construction noise ........................................................................ 37 5.4. High impact noise ....................................................................................... 40 5.5. Sleep disturbance ...................................................................................... 43 5.6. Construction traffic noise ............................................................................ 44 5.7. Building damage vibration goals ................................................................ 45 5.8. Human comfort vibration goals .................................................................. 47 5.9. Vibration affecting sensitive equipment ...................................................... 48 5.10. Vibration affecting buried utilities and services .......................................... 50 5.11. Ground-borne noise ................................................................................... 50 6. Predicted noise and vibration levels .................................................................... 52 6.1. Prediction methodology .............................................................................. 52 6.2. Predicted construction noise levels ............................................................ 53 6.3. Construction traffic noise assessment ....................................................... 55 6.4. Construction vibration assessment ............................................................ 55 6.5. Construction ground-borne noise assessment ........................................... 57 7. Noise and vibration management and mitigation ............................................... 58 7.1. Site noise mitigation measures .................................................................. 58 7.2. Source noise control strategies .................................................................. 58 7.3. Noise barrier control strategies .................................................................. 59 7.4. Vibration control strategies ......................................................................... 60 7.5. Community consultation and management ................................................ 61 © Sydney Metro 2020 Unclassified Page 2 of 102 Marrickville, Canterbury and Lakemba Station Upgrades NVMP Rev03 210125 Unclassified Sydney Metro – Integrated Management System (IMS) (Uncontrolled when printed) 7.6. Standard Construction hours and out-of-hours work ................................. 63 7.7. Site environment induction and training ..................................................... 65 7.8. Neighbour friendly behaviour ..................................................................... 65 7.9. Cumulative impacts management .............................................................. 66 7.10. Utility coordination and respite ................................................................... 67 7.11. Additional mitigation measures .................................................................. 68 7.12. Applying AMM ............................................................................................ 69 7.13. Construction traffic noise management ...................................................... 72 8. Construction noise and vibration monitoring program ..................................... 73 8.1. Baseline data ............................................................................................. 73 8.2. Monitoring .................................................................................................. 73 8.2.1. Plant noise auditing .................................................................... 75 8.2.2. Vibration monitoring ................................................................... 75 8.2.3. Dilapidation or Condition Surveys .............................................. 76 8.3. General monitoring requirements ............................................................... 77 8.4. Frequency of monitoring ............................................................................ 78 8.5. Reporting .................................................................................................... 78 8.6. Review of monitoring .................................................................................. 79 8.7. Monitoring program consultation ................................................................ 81 9. NVMP administration ............................................................................................. 82 9.1. Hold points ................................................................................................. 82 9.2. Review and improvement ........................................................................... 82 9.3. Records ...................................................................................................... 83 Appendix A – Other CoA, REMM and CEMF requirements relevant to this plan ........... 84 Appendix B – Land Use Survey .......................................................................................... 98 Appendix C – Indicative work sites .................................................................................... 99 Appendix D – Sydney Metro Out-of-Hours Works Application ...................................... 100 Appendix E – Consultation Records ................................................................................ 101 Figures Figure 1: Graph of Transient Vibration Guide Values for Cosmetic Damage ............. 46 Figure 2: Vibration Criterion (VC) Curves ........................................................................ 49 Tables Table 1: Noise and vibration objectives and targets ........................................................ 9 Table 2: Consultation carried out in the development of this Plan ............................... 11 Table 3: Legislation and Planning Instruments .............................................................. 13 Table 4: NVMP Compliance Matrix .................................................................................. 15 Table 5: Roles and Responsibilities ................................................................................. 21 Table 6: List of heritage receivers near the proposed station works ........................... 25 Table 7: Measured ambient and background noise levels ........................................... 27 © Sydney Metro 2020 Unclassified Page 3 of 102 Marrickville, Canterbury and Lakemba Station Upgrades NVMP Rev03 210125 Unclassified Sydney Metro – Integrated Management System (IMS) (Uncontrolled when printed) Table 8: Proposed Construction Works with typical worst case Sound Power Levels (SWL, dBLAeq,15min) ............................................................................................................. 28 Table 9: How noise management levels at residences