I presently work for an engineering consultancy in Perth
http://www.svt.com.au
working on Environmental Noise Monitoring Systems. This involves the development of noise measurement instrumentation and i have just completed development of a VB application which archives noise data using Jet DBEngine and provides statistical analysis of stored data, with both online and offline noise monitoring options, graphing and reporting. This will be documented soon on the above web site. I can also be contacted as stewart@svt.com.au