While contemporary interior design favours the use of hard, reflective surfaces, the consequence is that reverberation times within buildings are on the rise.
There are a three ways in which sound can be transmitted from one part of a building to another: airborne, impact and flanking.And each requires a different solution.
Approved Document E (Resistance to the Passage of Sound) weighs in at 86 pages, so we've created a digest version.
Psychoacoustics, a branch of psychophysics, is the study of how sound and noise psychologically (and, by extension, physiologically) effects people.
While contemporary interior design favours the use of hard, reflective surfaces, the consequence is that reverberation times within buildings are on the rise.
There are a three ways in which sound can be transmitted from one part of a building to another: airborne, impact and flanking.And each requires a different solution.
What constitutes 'too loud' will vary from person to person. However, there are levels of noise which are too loud for anyone.
