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Building and Environment, 2018 Students spend a lot of time at school, highlighting the great importance of providing comfortable conditions in educational buildings. Indoor environmental conditions are also related to student productivity and well-being, but Literature reviews mainly
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On the definition of acoustic comfort in residential buildings
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017The aim of this study is to explore acoustic comfort in family apartments in Scandinavia, not only regarding standardized acoustic data but also including the users’ perception of their living sound environment. A first approach takes place for the definition of the concept of acoustic comfort, which was rarely defined before and used to be mostly ...
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INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
Acoustic comfort is an essential factor for the quality of built environments and the health of users, influencing well-being and productivity. Often, acoustic solutions are incorporated late in the project, resulting in rework. This paper presents the ODES method, which organizes the application of strategies for acoustic comfort in four stages: (1 ...
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Acoustic comfort is an essential factor for the quality of built environments and the health of users, influencing well-being and productivity. Often, acoustic solutions are incorporated late in the project, resulting in rework. This paper presents the ODES method, which organizes the application of strategies for acoustic comfort in four stages: (1 ...
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Is acoustic comfort underestimated by architects?
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010A survey was carried out among architects and undergraduate students in order to identify their understanding of acoustics. It can be seen that some myths in architectural acoustics are solidly established. Simultaneously, the viewpoint of lay people was also looked into and it was found that their demands are often in opposition to what architects ...
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The Evolution of Acoustic Comfort in Italian Houses
Building Acoustics, 2012The research reports the evolution of building technologies and acoustic quality of buildings from 1950 to 2010. Both field measurements and prediction models have been used to determinate the evolution of Italian buildings' acoustic performances. The acoustic performances of Italian buildings realized in the last period (after 1997) were done by ...
NANNIPIERI, ELISA, SECCHI, SIMONE
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Acoustical comfort in office buildings
2019This paper aims to provide insight to decision makers such as designers, facility managers and renovators of office buildings on how office occupants perceive acoustical comfort. In the first step, a detailed literature analysis was performed to determine the main criteria that can be used to measure acoustical comfort in office buildings.
Artan, D., Ergen, E., Tekçe, Işılay
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Application of acoustic materials for comfort and safety.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009This work presents an overview of two high performance acoustic products from DuPont™ with various case studies on lowering low frequency noise transmission using DuPont™ LoWave™, low-weight thin blanket with enhanced low frequency performance, and lowering noise with cleanable, dust free sound absorptive panels protected by DuPont™ Tyvek®, a ...
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Characterization of an urban area’s acoustical comfort
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1998In this paper a global method to characterize acoustic comfort in urban areas is presented. This method takes into account the relationships between urban forms (shapes, sizes, and material surfaces), the opinions of town-users, and noise descriptors.
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Building and EnvironmentThe interaction between thermal and acoustic factors has been demonstrated to influence indoor comfort perceptions significantly. However, the boundaries within which these factors collectively affect comfort perceptions and their predictive efficacy ...
Xin Wen, Qi Meng, Da Yang
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On Acoustic Comfort in Urban Transport on Rails
2017An important part of urban transport is performed using rail vehicles that, consequently, represent a major source of urban noise. This noise affects both people inside and outside the vehicle. In the paper we present the results obtained in investigating the acoustic comfort from rail vehicles in urban transportation system. In this respect, there are
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