Open-plan offices and schools have rather stringent acoustical requirements relating to annoyance, speech privacy, and communication. These factors are largely signal-to-noise considerations. Evaluation of open-plan acoustics requires measurement of sound propagation and background noise within the space. Current techniques employ extensive one-third octave band measurements reasonably implemented under laboratory conditions, but cumbersome under field conditions. A simplified method for rapid evaluation in the field is proposed.

Author: Chaudiere, Herbert T.
Affiliation: Robin M. Towne and Associates, Inc., Seattle, WA
JAES Volume 24 Issue 6 pp. 461-464; August 1976
Publication Date: August 1, 1976 Import into BibTeX
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