Sound of terror
Thursday, 2. August 2007, 12:10:16
Right across the street of the Opera offices in Oslo, there is some construction going on. Actually new buildings have been popping up everywhere around Opera lately, which is nice. The problem with this particular project coined Waldemars Hage 2 is that they are doing sheet piling with 10-20 metres long sheets sticking them into the ground using a giant vibrating hammer, each sheet takes probably 10 minutes to put down, and the noise made is extremely loud.
It's impossible to stay outside at the balcony when the process is ongoing, one should probably wear some proper professional hearing protection like the contruction workers do. It's on the border on hurting. The whole building vibrates, and the offices facing the construction site have a noise level that makes it hard to hear yourself think.
I'm sitting in the back luckily, yet we still hear the irritating noise.
I find it very strange that there at least hasn't been any notices about the noise, and that they are even allowed to generate that loud noise. I've seen people on the site not wearing helmets too, and the other day a fire started in one of the nearby containers, so I guess following the rules is not priority number one.
Anyway, having set up a giant loud speaker, which the sheet is working as, I feel they could have found some better music than gabber techno on speed.
No fire without smoke
The first spotting of the terror noise machine
Noise terror in action
Look ma, no helmet
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