BAP Acoustics: Specialist Acoustic Consulting Engineers

Acoustic Consultancy

Experienced, innovative, flexible – BAP Acoustics is your partner for professional acoustic design services.

"When a tree falls in the forest, is there any sound?"

Only humans and animals perceive sound. At BAP Acoustics, we strive to attenuate unwanted sound like urban or industrial noise, while promoting desirable sound to optimize speech intelligibility and musical clarity.

Founders of BAP Acoustics

Our Work

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

TELUS Garden – Tenant Improvements

UBC Arts Student Centre, Vancouver

Kwakiutl Wagalus School, Port Hardy

Prince George Fire Hall

Saskatchewan Hospital – North Battleford

601 Hastings Street

Nanaimo Airport Terminal Expansion

Viterra - Port of Vancouver

Ora Yoga & Fitness, Surrey

Golder Associates - Tenant Improvements

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – Manitoba Temple

Pacific Reach Properties Development Limited Partnership

What We Do

Noise & Vibration Measurement & Analysis

Building Acoustic Design

Exterior Noise Control

Legal Services

Noise & Vibration Measurement & Analysis

Building Acoustic Design

Exterior Noise Control

Legal Services

What People Say

Working with BAP Acoustics has been refreshing. The timely and professional responses from Mark Gaudet throughout the project have been greatly appreciated. His ability to design intelligently with solutions that challenge convention have helped us be very competitive while ensuring that we have a design that performs. I would highly recommend BAP Acoustics to anyone, and will look forward to working with them on the next project.

Viterra has worked with BAP Acoustics on several projects including baseline assessments. Their work has been thorough and professional and their interactions with regulators extremely efficient. Their work is responsive to our needs and is cost efficient. The working relationship has been very effective. We will continue to foster our relationship in follow-up projects as required.

BAP was wonderful to work with. Knowing we had expert advice before beginning construction alleviated a lot of our concerns and follow-up site visits from Mark and Eric ensured our contractors were following the plans. BAP was mindful of our budget and always suggested alternative products to achieve our goal of a relaxing, restful, quiet environment for our guests.

Who We Are

BAP Acoustics was started by Eric de Santis and Mark Gaudet in 2012. We have offices just outside Vancouver in Port Moody and in Victoria.

Our firm delivers industry-leading services and solutions to clients across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Our key resources include experienced and well-motivated staff all of whom are qualified at post-graduate level in acoustical engineering.

We possess excellent IT facilities, specialist instrumentation, computational and simulation systems.

Sharing Our Knowledge

October 3, 2021

A number of UK and EU-based universities offer Acoustical Engineering degree programs at levels from undergraduate to PhD. If you live in Canada or the US, however, you’ll find that those highly specialized degree programs aren’t offered on this side of the Atlantic. But if a career in acoustical engineering

July 27, 2021

WELL done acoustics with a side of Green

The fact that I’m wearing noise-cancelling headphones as I write strikes me as both ironic and illustrative of how much and how insidiously noise can affect us at work, rest, or play. With all the construction underway in my neighbourhood, I’m relieved to discover that the sounds of recorded waterfalls,

April 12, 2021

Something sounds fishy: mitigating noise aboard small industrial craft

I’d never before pondered that fish and noise might—even indirectly—have anything to do with each other. Little did I know! Sure, fish do tend to be quiet, but the process of harvesting them most assuredly does not. With high casualty, accident, and injury rates, fish harvesting ranks as one of

November 24, 2020

Listen up, class! Acoustic tips for your virtual classroom.

Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or a student of any age, news headlines like the one above spell not only uncertainty, but an exponentially increasing likelihood that you may soon need to—if you haven’t already—set up a virtual classroom in your home.

September 16, 2020

Rock on! Quietly.

If you’re familiar with our work and philosophy, you’ll know that we’re all about planning-stage noise mitigation measures vs/ so-called soundproofing… the latter almost worthy of MythBusters*. You’ll know BAP Acoustics gives no bandwidth to purveyors of noise-cancelling miracle materials and quick-fix solutions with no scientific basis. That said, there

July 2, 2020

Let’s hear it for her too!

In Have you heard about her? Women’s innovative contributions to acoustics (Part I), we started off with a historical perspective, acknowledging Hedy Lamarr’s ground-breaking work in developing the frequency hopping spread spectrum, a technology still used in underwater acoustic communication and recognized as the foundation of WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.