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Thanks for the suggestion Whale.
I’m sure our current system works well as far as car park ventilation is concerned. It’s the noise it makes (and only the noise at night) that is the issue. We are in a heritage listed building with very limited possibility to alter air-flows etc.
Changing the existing system needs a building permit, performance certifications and an amendment to our Occupancy Permit etc. The costs for this ‘paperwork’ alone are around $10,000.00. Then there are the purchase and installation costs of the new system and the removal costs of the old one. It will probably end up costing some tens of thousands of dollars for an OC of 12 owners. And all of this because of one complaint after 8 years of operation.
So we on the committee have decided that we will get the Acoustic Engineer and see what can be done to the existing system. At this point we are not even sure that the OC is technically at fault. Perhaps the system is working within legal sound limits. We’ll establish that too. And a side issue – when a lot owner accuses an OC of operating illegal equipment is it up to the OC to spend thousands of dollars (the Acoustic Engineer with cost over $1,000 in our case) to establish if the the lot owner is right or wrong?