At AVALUA, we have been actively collaborating with the International Nightlife Association for many years, establishing normative criteria among its members. Verifying and certifying the adequacy of legislative compliance in the field of noise pollution. Designing spaces and implementing corrective measures (passive, active, organisational and operational) in order to guarantee the optimal functioning of leisure activities, increasing their qualitative level and adapting their response in favour of coexistence (promotion of respectful social uses) and cohabitation of uses (harmonisation of economic and social development, focused on sustainability as a primary vector).
The contribution of AVALUA together with the synergy of action of the international employers’ association of the Nightlife sector, is a verifiable fact that has borne fruit through the training, pedagogical action, operational transformation of the associates and habits in their everyday life, together with the active participation in presentations of the different Nightlife Congress held.
The establishment of good practice protocols with the efficient and effective acoustic management of these activities associated with the Nightlife through its distinctive quality certifications such as the International Nightlife Acoustic Quality of the Triple Excellence. With the collaboration and involvement of AVALUA, they have contributed to the effective transformation of the sector, giving it a sustainable evolution that, driven by the main world Top Clubs, has generated an example of award-winning management, being a benchmark for the rest of the sector’s activities.
On November 20, International Nightlife presented the winners of the prestigious list ‘The World’s 100 Best Clubs’ 2024 to which nightlife venues from up to 30 countries have accessed. The members of the list have been selected, by popular vote and by a jury of experts in the sector (50%-50%), from a total of 420 nominated venues, from 65 different countries.
The activities designed and/or acoustically managed by AVALUA on this list are:
- Nº1 Hï Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
- Nº3 Ushuaïa Ibiza, Ibiza Spain
- Nº55 Velice Discoteca, Torrevieja, Spain
- Nº74 Lío Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
- Nº78 Marmarela, Alicante, Spain
- Nº84 Tropical Salou, Salou, Spain
Or others that at some point have had these services:
- Nº8 DC-10 Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
- Nº64 O Beach, Ibiza, Spain
- Nº93 Playa Soleil, Ibiza, Spain
At AVALUA we believe that our work must go far beyond the strict engineering task, in terms of the acoustic conceptualization of spaces and their certification. Management support is essential for a differential qualitative evolution.
The appropriate treatment of reliable and truthful information, focused on the achievement of objectives. All these activities are monitored sonometrically, in real time and continuously, through our #SiMSo platform. This allows us to optimise, with maximum performance, the management of sound emission and immission at all times. Train and educate the entire technical and artistic team of each activity, guaranteeing regulatory compliance at all times and emphasizing the acoustic quality of each venue with respect for the environment.
But, together with the International Nightlife Association, we have gone further in this acoustic management of its own members. We have jointly promoted a first-rate innovation where sonometric monitoring technology, continuous and in real time, to facilitate the management of immediate response to the administration, democratizes information, with the involvement and dialogue of all the agents co-responsible for governance. This allows us to promote a diagnosis and generation of the necessary levers of change to activate transformative mechanisms in respectful and healthy habits, thus guaranteeing coexistence together with the compatibility and cohabitation of uses.
Now we must be able, together, to generate a context that favours the objective of sustainability and correct acoustic management in the territory or municipality where we operate. The local administration, guarantor of regulatory compliance, must go further in achieving objectives. It must crystallize a long-term sustainability model involving all parties. That is why we have created the necessary instrument and strategy of action for municipal or supra-municipal entities. A quality, management and action system that will continuously evaluate:
Acoustically Sustainable Management in the Territory of Responsible Action Certificate
#ASMTRACertificate is a quality, management and action certification that allows the generation of new dynamics of social transformation towards healthy and sustainable habits. All through the dialogue and involvement of the different parties involved, administration, citizens and activities. Technological innovation together with social activation, since tools are established for the democratization of environmental information, facilitating its prompt response.
The establishment of governance through dialogue activates the cycle of continuous improvement (PLAN/DO/CHECK/ACT), evaluates the performance of good municipal practices as an instrument and action plan that guarantees the objectives of correct acoustic management in a sustained way over time.
Reordering and dignifying an evolutionary path of the leisure sector is essential for our social health and, as it cannot be otherwise, in a way that respects the environment and our fellow citizens. Management tools that as experts we have wanted to make available to society. Let us move forward.
