The Ecophon office network joined up in an effort to raise acoustic awareness among the facility management community, at EFMC 2012, trying to emphasise the importance of thinking about acoustics at an early stage, and the influence of acoustics to people’s satisfaction, performance and well-being. Facility managers, workplace designers, and others within the >700 attendants […]
Open plan offices at Euronoise 2012
Open plan office acoustics were the subject of the afternoon on June 12th, at the Euronoise 2012 in Prague. The session was chaired by Valtteri Hongisto, from the finnish institute of occupational health, and dealt with the acoustic design of open plan offices and included presentations from Jukka Keränen, Claus Lynge Christensen, C.B Pop and […]
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Acoustics 2012 in Nantes April 23-27
Acoustics 2012 joining the 11th Congrès Français d’Acoustique and the 2012 Annual IOA Meeting will be held in Nantes, France from 23 to 27 April 2012. The Congress is co-organised by the French Acoustical Society (SFA) and the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) from UK. This congress is also supported by the European Acoustics Association (EAA). […]
The 4 ways sound affects us – TED-video
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. See the video from TED.com below. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf Click here to see video on TED.com website. Julian Treasure is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses — offices, retailers, hotels — on how […]
Acoustic Bulletin LinkedIN group more than 700 members
The Acoustic Bulletin group on LinkedIN continues to grow, and discussions to flourish. With more than 730 members, quickly aproaching 750, the group provides a unique space for online discussions regarding room acoustics with other experts in the field. Click here to join.
New open plan office ISO-standard published
The new standard ISO 3382-3: Acoustics — Measurement of room acoustic parameters — Part 3: Open plan offices, has now officially been published and can be downloaded as pdf using this link
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New open plan office standard reaches publication stage
The new standard ISO 3382-3: Acoustics — Measurement of room acoustic parameters — Part 3: Open plan offices, has now officially been approved and moved on to publication stage 60.00 (2011-12-19), which categorises it as an international standard under publication. The main points of this standard as experienced by Acoustic Bulletin, is the fact that […]
Noisy toys can damage childrens’ hearing
Researchers from UC Irvine’s Department of Otolaryngology measured the noise levels of two dozen popular noisy toys in stores and purchased the 10 loudest for precise gauging in a soundproof booth at UC Irvine Medical Center. They found that all exceeded 90 decibels and several reached 100 or more, equivalent to the noise of a […]
