Prediction of sound insulation in buildings: a tool to improve the acoustic quality
conference paper
Noise from neighbours is an important item in the acoustic climate in which we live and work. And yet the requirements remain essentially the same as fifty years ago, though the noise situation in and around dwellings has changed. In the past the acoustic performance of a building design could largely be based on the experience gained from existing buildings and the needed knowledge could be developed on the basis of field measurements. But nowadays the building industry is moving more and more towards light and sustainable constructions and the applied materials and methods are changing more quickly. These developments call for a higher acoustic performance level of buildings and for new tools to evaluate and improve this in the design stage.
TNO Identifier
499284
Source title
Proceedings DAGA'03 German Annual Conference on Acoustics, 18-20 March, 2003, Aachen, Germany
Collation
6 p.
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