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Acoustic Comfort in Timber Frame Dwellings
Building Acoustics, 2007Timber framework has become the most common construction technique in the world for private dwellings. In Belgium, although masonry construction still constitutes the most important market share, the number of new houses with timber framework increases each year.
M Van Damme +5 more
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ACOUSTIC COMFORT IN YACHTS: MEASUREMENTS WITH ACOUSTIC CAMERA
2022Shipowners have become more sensitive to noise issues, leading to consider acoustic comfort as an important parameter in the design of private boats. In the last years, manufacturers have been requested more attention to the living environments of leisure ships.
Licitra G. +4 more
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Adaptive thermal comfort factors in classroom acoustics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021Climate change is affecting the built environment with a growing need to balance adaptive comfort models by relating ambient room temperature and outdoor climatic factors, on the one hand, with adequate classroom acoustics, on the other hand. The adaptive approach allows occupants of a space to adjust their clothing, activity and posture in a space to ...
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Acoustic, thermal and luminous comfort in classrooms
Building and Environment, 2004Abstract Environmental comfort embodies four different research areas: thermal, luminic, acoustic and ergonomic comfort. However, regarding the built environment, architects and civil engineers should primarily concentrate their efforts on the first three, considering that ergonomic comfort is more related to designers.
Eduardo L. Krüger, Paulo H.T. Zannin
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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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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.
Jacques Beaumont +3 more
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Acoustic Comfort in Hybrid Learning Spaces: Students Perspective
INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, 2023In this paper, we assess the acoustic environment comfort at the University of Sharjah after classes have been reconfigured in response to COVID-19 pandemic protocols, which included reducing the number of seats to comply with social distancing to support the hybrid teaching model.
Hussein Elmehdi, Ania Tato
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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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Noise Criteria in condominiums and acoustic comfort
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1981The paper deals with noise criteria in condominium situations. Since total inaudibility of intrusive sounds is impossible to achieve with standard construction systems for condominiums, the presence of background noise is considered an important item in the design equation.
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Room acoustics and vocal comfort in untrained vocalists
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014Talkers have long been studied in their speech accommodation strategies in noise. Vocal effort and comfort within noisy situations have also been studied. In this study, untrained vocalists were exposed to a range of room acoustic conditions. In each environment, the subject performed a vocal task, with a goal of being “heard” by a listener 5 m away ...
Eric J. Hunter +3 more
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