Medlin & Associates, Acoustical Consultants

About us · A decade of sound advice

Acoustical consultants, San Diego County, founded 2000

Medlin & Associates is DOT (Caltrans) Certified WBE/DBE (Woman Business Enterprise/Disadvantaged Business Enterprise).

We can provide your firm with quality acoustical consulting services and assist your firm in meeting woman-owned small business goals and/or small disadvantaged business goals for federal and state contracts.

We are also a California Certified Small Business.

These certifications are as listed on the firm's website between 2002 and 2009.

Background

Medlin & Associates was founded in 2000. Before consulting, the firm's principal worked for the U.S. Navy (NAVSEA and Mare Island Naval Shipyard) on ship and submarine silencing: noise and vibration monitoring of the submarine fleet, submarine noise reduction and the acoustics of surface ships.

  • Member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)
  • Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
  • Certified Environmental Consultant in Acoustics, San Diego County
Submarine below the surface with the line: Bring the silence of the submarine to your next project, and the Medlin & Associates logo
Our home page in 2005.

Consulting projects

Architectural and environmental acoustics projects including new residential developments, multi-family housing, elementary schools, churches, traffic noise studies and interior noise studies. Acoustical measurements of ambient/background noise, STC, RT60 using a state of the art Larson-Davis 824 sound level meter and real time analyzer. Acoustical studies, noise impact studies and architectural acoustics design and treatment recommendations.

Navy projects and programs

SSN/SSBN submarine fleet noise and vibration monitoring; machinery and hull vibration monitoring; top management attention noise program; acoustical design of new surface ships including minesweepers, destroyers and oceanographic research ships; submarine silencing improvement program; ship acoustical surveys; reduction of ship airborne noise, structureborne noise, radiated noise and sonar self-noise impacts; noise and vibration control; technical expertise in ship airborne noise control to improve speech communication, ship habitability, and reduction in ship's force hearing losses.

Submarine on the surface with a dolphin in the foreground
Submarine on the surface. Submarine silencing was the principal's Navy background.
Navy minesweeper at sea
Minesweeper: the Navy work included the acoustical design of new surface ships.
Submarine passing under the Golden Gate Bridge
Submarine under the Golden Gate Bridge.