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 […]
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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 […]
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
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 […]
What we see affects how we perceive sound at work
Daniel Västfjäll, Chalmers University in Sweden, is involved in a project where they study the connection between what we hear and what we see – regarding disturbing work related sounds. In a laboratory, the researchers conducted a series of experiments to see how the same sound, having the same volume, affect people differently depending on […]
EIAS Workshop – Open plan office acoustics
Claus-Moller Peterson (Grontmij) – photo by Martin Arvebro A workshop regarding open plan office acoustics was held at the Ecophon International Acousticians’ Seminar, in Bastad, Sweden, Sept 22nd. An opening lecture about open plan offices was held by Christina Bodin Danielsson entitled “The future office – a meeting place or something else? Which are the […]
Interview with Valtteri Hongisto – EIAS 2011
Ricardo Canto Leyton talks to Valtteri Hongisto from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Indoor environment, Finland. Hongisto has recently performed a study in Finland, of which he spoke about during the conference. All interviews from EIAS are also available in HQ via the Youtube channel youtube.com/acousticbulletin The Ecophon International Acousticians’ Seminar was held on […]
Acoustic Design of open-plan offices
The technical report entitled “Acoustic design of open-plan offices” from the Nordic Innovation Centre about the acoustic conditions in five open-plan offices situated in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland is now available on the webpage. The report proposes measurement procedures of the spatial decay parameters DL2 and DLf, which in turn can be converted to […]
Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices
A Danish study by Pejtersen JH, Feveile H, Christensen KB, Burr H claims that sickness absence increases when sharing offices and in open-plan spaces. The analysis was based on a national survey of Danish inhabitants between 18–59 years of age (response rate 62%), and the study population consisted of the 2403 employees that reported working […]
Six ways to get more peace in the office
A survey among 1200 employees shows that six in ten percieve the sounds in the workplace as disturbing. Sounds from the surrounding people, not computers or fans, disturbs the most. Frans Davidsson recently made recommendations based on the results from this study in swedish magazine Chef. Frans Davidsson, Concept Developer – Modern Office, Ecophon Sweden […]
