Bob Mantey, Principal
Acoustical Consultant
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Industrial Noise
Control: Bob has performed environmental noise analysis, predictive
design modeling, and worker (OSHA) exposure assessments for hundreds of
electrical power generation stations, refinery/hydrocarbon-processing
plants, and commercial/ industrial facilities. Emphasis was placed on
noise control of all types of rotating machinery, cooling equipment,
process piping, venting sources, and material handling systems. Project
involvement often entails ‘cradle-to-grave’ services from regulatory
review, to ambient baseline surveys, to permitting and impact
assessment, to noise control engineering (throughout the design
process), to start-up troubleshooting, to verification measurements
following commissioning. Noise reduction/mitigation projects – ranging
from snack chip production/packaging lines to hospitals to petrochemical
processing complexes – typically have entailed source assessments,
mitigation methodology examinations, vendor screenings, benefit
estimations, and costing investigations to establish a cost-effective
and practical noise reduction approach, while minimizing facility
down-time.
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Power Plant Permitting and Design Support: Mr.
Mantey has prepared technical noise studies on over 100 power plants in
15 states and in a half-dozen countries for such developers as SDG&E,
Duke Energy, Reliant Energy, Calpine, ConEd, Entergy, AES, FPL, TIE,
Panda Power, PSE&G, MEGA, TransAlta, Iberdrola, Energy NorthWest, EMI,
and Thermo Ecotek. Several of these studies have been performed for
projects in California with the associated environmental assessment for
the California Energy Commission (CEC). As part of the CEC permitting
process, technical noise studies, modeling analyses, Application for
Certification (AFC) section generation, response to comments, and/or
assistance in public hearings have been performed for the following
California power projects: Morro Bay, Avenal, Colusa, Tesla, Moss
Landing, Rio Linda/Elverta, Mountainview, High Desert, Riverside Canal,
and Crockett. For the Morro Bay project, Mr. Mantey’s contributions
ranged from baseline ambient surveys to preliminary engineering design
support to testimony before the CEC hearing officers.
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Environmental Noise Assessment and EIR Documentation:
Bob wrote or
assisted in the preparation of the noise section and/or noise technical
appendix for several California development projects requiring CEQA-based
EIR documentation. These projects included the Hollywood & Highland
Entertainment Center (the permanent home of the Oscars®), the Warner
Center Specific Plan Supplemental EIR (in support of LAUSD v. City of
Los Angeles), WDI’s Grand Central Creative Campus (GC3) studios in the
Glendale Redevelopment Center, WDI’s Third Gate in the Disneyland Resort
Complex, and the LA Equestrian Center. He also performed technical
review and helped generate formal responses to comments on the proposed
Universal City Specific Plan EIR (for Universal Studios’ proposed theme
park, retail, and hotel expansion). Bob also generated NEPA
documentation for potential noise impacts from a facility
expansion/upgrade project on a Veterans Administration Hospital. All of
these environmental assessment projects entailed significant
noise-related issues and/or potential impacts to surrounding land uses,
adjacent residential area, and/or nearby school facilities.
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Project Management / Group Management: For
4+
years, Mr. Mantey has been a managing technical principal of an
acoustical engineering consulting firm that he co-founded. This
consulting firm provides services to both private and government
entities in environmental noise assessment, industrial noise control,
transportation noise analyses, vibration evaluation, and acoustical
project planning. Prior to establishing AAC, Bob was responsible for
group management and administrative oversight of several noise control
engineering and acoustical specialists at two firms over a span of 10
years. He also was the Project Manager of an industrial noise survey and
worker exposure study at a large, Middle-Eastern refinery, and the
Project Manager of several power substation noise assessment jobs for a
large southern California utility.
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Legal Support: Bob has
reviewed, contributed to, analyzed, and/or written noise sections for
many power plant permit applications to the California Energy Commission
(CEC). He has also testified (sworn-in hearings) before the Commission
on one of the most complicated and involved projects to go before the
CEC. In support of a legal firm representing a homeowners’ group, Mr.
Mantey conducted outdoor noise level measurements in a dispute over
potentially intrusive commercial operations. He has also contributed to
the litigation support of LAUSD vs. City of Los Angeles, concerning
noise impacts in a degraded classroom noise environment for the City of
Los Angeles’ Warner Center Specific Plan.
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Transportation:
Bob has conducted public information presentations and
city staff overview briefings for a roadway re-alignment project in the
City of Orange. Previously, he carried out field measurements of
aircraft fly-over noise for residential sound insulation projects around
several major airports, including LAX and John Wayne (SNA). On the
analytical side, he helped develop, run, and update computer
optimization studies for retrofit sound insulation upgrades for several
residential pilot programs at major southern California airports. He
helped write a performance specification for an expanded and updated
community noise monitoring system at LAX.
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Architectural Acoustics:
Bob applied theoretical research studies to the practical
estimation/assessment of sentence intelligibility parameters inside
industrial work spaces. He also evaluated telecommunications
effectiveness and alerting capabilities on interior environments in
several nuclear power facilities. Most recently, Bob supported the
architectural acoustics design efforts for operating spaces inside the
City of Long Beach Emergency Operations (911) Center.
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Measurements / Monitoring: Bob has done
community/environmental noise data acquisition on industrial facilities,
transportation sources, and entertainment venues and he has conducted
field studies of machinery noise emissions at several power plants,
refineries, and food processing facilities; both domestic and foreign.
Measurements have included frequency-band, time-averaged, and
statistical sound level data acquisition/ processing techniques. Also,
he has performed on-site noise mitigation trouble-shooting at many
operating facilities, including foodstuff plants, off-shore oil drilling
platforms, a CO2 recovery plant, large refineries, and several power
plants.
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Vibration Assessment: Bob performed predictive
analysis studies for several microelectronic fabrication facilities. The
studies were aimed at finding the potential disruption to sensitive
production equipment from waffle floor resonances due to footfall
inputs. He also conducted field studies at power plants involving
simultaneous measurements and correlation of noise and vibration
emissions from boiler burners.
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Acoustics Research:
Bob applied theoretical
research studies to the practical estimation/assessment of
telecommunications, alerting capabilities for both exterior and interior
emergency warning/paging systems in several nuclear power facilities.
Also, he was the Task Manager on a noise research project for Riverside
County aimed at studying the noise emissions, measurement methodologies,
and long-range propagation of noise from electricity generation wind
turbines. A related paper was presented at a Wind Turbine Technology
Symposium.
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