Re: Road noise and building code

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.

To answer what I want from this, I would like to understand whether the residential block is built to the acoustic standard as per the relevant legislation.

My preliminary testing suggests it potentially does not by a great deal.

I agree and am aware that pursuing legal avenue will be a lot more difficult and costly than just asking for permission to install a second layer of window. (I have already looked into that).

But I have some reason to believe that the building is not built to the minimum standard required. I don’t believe it has anything to do with buyers beware.

I would like to seek anyone who knows / can provide more information on relevant authorities and bodies that will seriously consider matter like this even though it is an uncommon and complex situation.

I may choose the easy option not to pursue this further with the mindset of this will never get anywhere and all is too difficult.

Personally, it is because of these mindset which gives reason for potentially offender to repeat it over and over again, knowing that an ordinary Australian will not pursue this because it is too expensive/too cumbersome.

So before I call it quit, I would like to understand further if there is any similar cases in the past I can make reference to.