So much about environmental monitoring has changed over the past decade, from the technologies deployed on the ground, right through to increasingly urgent climate imperatives across both public and private sector projects. All of these changes have shifted the priorities towards more proactive and technically advanced monitoring and reporting, ensuring this is no longer a regulatory afterthought.
Increasingly, it is the key element in project management that safeguards compliance, builds stakeholder confidence, and often can help keep works on schedule. All construction activities impact the environment in some way with noise, dust and vibrations and, if unmanaged, this can lead to complaints, fines, project delays, or worse. Proactive monitoring ensures these risks are identified and controlled before they become major problems.
Sonitus Systems offers monitoring solutions built for the demands of construction projects. The EM2030 Sound Level Monitor delivers IEC 61672 Class 1 accuracy and supports 1/3-octave analysis, along with an audio capture and remote alerts, making it well suited to record defensible noise data in the field. For particulate monitoring, the Dustsens DM30 provides continuous measurement of PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 using an optical particle counter; it is MCERTS-approved for indicative ambient monitoring, covering PM10 and PM2.5. The Sitesens DM30N station integrates the Class 1 sound monitor and the MCERTS-approved dust sensor into one system, combining noise and particulate measurements.
All of our monitors feed data directly into Sonitus Cloud, our secure reporting and analytics platform: https://www.sonitussystems.com/products/sonitus-cloud. From here, project managers can see real-time conditions, set alerts, and generate compliance reports. Data can be shared with regulators or stakeholders under their own branding, removing the need for manual logging and reducing the potential for mistakes.
The platform also supports features such as Automated Noise Identification (ANI), which identifies noise sources within recordings. This means site personnel can distinguish between construction activity, traffic, or other — saving time and ensuring responses are properly targeted: https://www.sonitussystems.com/insights/unlocking-smarter-noise-management/
For developers, the benefit is not only regulatory compliance. Monitoring allows works to continue safely, backed by a record of environmental conditions on site. It can also strengthen community engagement by providing transparent, evidence-based communication if/when concerns are raised.
By making environmental monitoring part of the build process from the start, projects run smoothly and with (hopefully!) fewer environmental surprises. Accurate data keeps sites compliant, community informed, and teams focused on delivery. At Sonitus Systems, we design our monitors to make that process simple, reliable and effective for you, your team, and your projects.
Sonitus Systems offers both the hardware and software for a range of environmental parameters on a continual basis, with real-time information available through our Sonitus Cloud dashboard. For more details on our indoor and outdoor noise and air quality monitoring products and services, please contact the team at https://www.sonitussystems.com/contact-us