SoundPLAN, noise mapping experience that you can count on
- Over 20 years of experience in noise model development
- An experienced and dedicated development team consisting of software developers, program testers and a technical writer for handbooks and documentation
- The program is available in 14 languages
- The software fulfills over 50 different national and international standards and is still adding new standards
- SoundPLAN 8; Sound Particle Diffraction! (read more about it SoundPLAN Sound Particle Diffraction theory SoundPLAN 8.0)
Practical program organization
- Modular by design – you only buy the modules you need, extend your portfolio when a new job requires it
- Not everything from data entry to the last plot in the same screen, but organized so every step is optimally supported with what you need when you need it
- Calculates in the background – edit your data while the last set of data is still calculating
- Organization of calculations as a spreadsheet with editing and execute dates and a full account of all parameters and the file name under which the results are saved
- Update service via the web – click and see if there is a new revision that may already have the tool you just found out you needed
- Multiple instances of the libraries (System, Global and Project)
- A complete integration of aircraft noise, indoor factory noise, environmental noise and air pollution make this software completely unique
- Multi-Document application – multiple input files, multiple calculation results, multiple documentation tables and spreadsheets and multiple sheets with varying, multiple content
- Compare results from multiple calculations in tabular form or view the calculations in depth with Documentation and Spreadsheet
- True Wall Optimization for single receivers and Façade Noise Maps with the results saved as a Geo-File so that it can be incorporated into the next calculation
Strategic project organization
- Modular by design – you only buy the modules you need, extend your portfolio when a new job requires it
- Not everything from data entry to the last plot in the same screen, but organized so every step is optimally supported with what you need when you need it
- Calculates in the background – edit your data while the last set of data is still calculating
- Organization of calculations as a spreadsheet with editing and execute dates and a full account of all parameters and the file name under which the results are saved
- Update service via the web – click and see if there is a new revision that may already have the tool you just found out you needed
- Multiple instances of the libraries (System, Global and Project)
- A complete integration of aircraft noise, indoor factory noise, environmental noise and air pollution make this software completely unique
- Multi Document application – multiple input files, multiple calculation results, multiple documentation tables and spreadsheets and multiple sheets with varying, multiple content
- Compare results from multiple calculations in tabular form or view the calculations in depth with Documentation and Spreadsheet
- True Wall Optimization for single receivers and Façade Noise Maps with the results saved as a Geo-File so that it can be incorporated into the next calculation

Impressive graphics capabilities
- Many different map types and display options can be freely combined for stunning graphics
- Manage multiple sheets with multiple content all in one tree diagram with copy of elements and settings between them
- Multiple types of graphics all on the same sheet
- Triangulated “City Noise Map” with the possib9ility of 1 calculation and output for single frequencies or frequency bands
- Flexible with user defined appearance via the object manager
- Save graphics as a template and use the template in other projects – simply specify the data files and the formatting is done
- Arithmetic with noise maps – add, subtract- show improvement between before and after scenario
Strategic project organization
- Situations and Geo-Files – no redundant data, clear organization of variants
- Tiling automatically manages huge simulation projects including the size of a country (the whole of Germany is managed as a single project)
- User definable noise assessments SoundPLAN data objects
For example a speed and road surface for a road or the height and absorption coefficient of a noise barrier.
Superior Calculations with
- High speed, high accuracy – calculate with projection to the Digital Ground Model
- Industrial calculations with transmission from indoor to outdoor and outdoor calculations into the environment
- Traceable and repeatable results that “know” where they come from and what settings were used in their creation (ISO9001 compliance)
- Grid Noise Maps, Triangulated receiver mesh noise map, Façade Noise Map, Vertical Grid Noise Map, Single receivers etc.
- Multi-threaded calculations with minimal overhead -on multi-core /multi-processor PCs run your application with just a few percent overhead (far less than the 40% advertised by Intel)
- Distributed Computing to scale your application. Use as many networked PCs as you want for the price of a single small module – no extra license fees needed for additional number crunching PCs
- Ability to calculate and edit your data at the same time
- Industrial noise with mean frequency, octave bands and third octave band