Room acoustic design in open-plan offices
2009 (English)In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Volume 31 Pt.3, St. Albans, United Kingdom: Institute of Acoustics , 2009, Vol. 5, p. 2954-2959Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In a Nordic cooperation project the acoustical conditions in open-plan offices was investigated. Measurements have been carried out in five open plan offices accompanied with an inquiry gathering the subjective judgments by the staff. A program for the acoustical measurements was designed specifying how to perform the measurements and which type of parameters to measure. The acoustical parameters included in the measurements are Reverberation time T20, Early Decay Time (EDT), Clarity (C50), Speech transmission index (STI), Speech intelligibility index (SII), Privacy Index (PI), Rate of spatial decay of sound pressure levels per distance doubling (DL2 ), Excess of sound pressure level with respect to a reference curve (DLf), background noise levels in occupied and unoccupied offices. In two of the offices are furbishment program was carried out. Measurements as well as questionnaire were accomplished after refurbishment. The effect on room acoustic parameters DL2 and DLf and on subjective judgments by the staff will be presented in this paper.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
St. Albans, United Kingdom: Institute of Acoustics , 2009. Vol. 5, p. 2954-2959
Keywords [en]
Acoustic, acoustic design, acoustic planning, acoustics, office, office sound, open-plan office, open-plan offices, practical tool, sound - tool
National Category
Work Sciences Civil Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-4950ISBN: 9781615676804 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-4950DiVA, id: diva2:794648
Conference
Euronoise 09, October 26-28, Edingburgh, Scotland
2015-03-122015-03-112020-03-30Bibliographically approved