For over 15 years, Mr. Bommer has worked on acoustical projects ranging from offshore platform noise control to National Park sound surveys to church acoustics. He has worked in both the planning stage, when problems must be anticipated and avoided, and after completion, when existing problems need to be treated.

In the field of industrial noise and vibration control, Mr. Bommer has worked on cogeneration plants, petrochemical plants, compressor stations, materials processing plants, and aircraft manufacturing facilities. These projects have involved reducing in-plant and community noise levels. On turn-key noise control projects, Mr. Bommer designed noise control treatments, took his plans to bid, and supervised installation of treatments.

Mr. Bommer has investigated transportation noise from aircraft, automobiles, boats, buses, dredges, forklifts, front-end loaders, hovercraft, racecars, trains, and trucks. He has also investigated vibration from railroads and pile driving.

For offices and residential buildings, Mr. Bommer has designed walls and ceilings to improve noise isolation and/or speech privacy. He has designed noise control treatments for mechanical equipment including computers, transformers, elevators, HVAC systems, chillers, compressors, pumps, and cooling towers.

In the field of room acoustics, Mr. Bommer has specified room shaping and surface materials to improve speech intelligibility and music presentation in churches, theaters, conference rooms, museums, and auditoria.

Mr. Bommer has written and used computer models to analyze sound propagation and to determine the effectiveness of proposed noise control treatments.

In cases involving litigation, Mr. Bommer has collected and analyzed noise data, investigated noise requirements, written reports, and served as an expert witness.

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION, AND SOCIETIES

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Architectural Design, 1982

Board Certified by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)

Vice President, INCE
Member, Acoustical Society of America
Past Chairman, Houston Chapter of Acoustical Society of America
Past President, MIT Alumni Club of South Texas