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Noise

Approved document E: Resistance to the passage of sound, suggests that: ‘Noise is unwanted sound.’

Articles on Designing Buildings about sound, noise and acoustics include:

  • 2015 Government response to media reports about noise complaints
  • Airborne noise
  • Ambient sound.
  • Approved Document E.
  • Ash deafening.
  • Audio frequency.
  • BREEAM Reduction of noise pollution.
  • Building acoustics.
  • Building Bulletin 93: acoustic design of schools.
  • Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.
  • Data noise.
  • Decibel.
  • Flanking noise
  • Flanking sound.
  • Impact noise
  • New noise guidance.
  • Noise at Work Assessment.
  • Noise barrier.
  • Noise - doors and windows.
  • Noise level.
  • Noise nuisance.
  • Noise pollution
  • Noise v sound
  • Reverberation time.
  • Sound absorption.
  • Sound absorption coefficient.
  • Sound frequency.
  • Sound insulation.
  • Sound masking.
  • Sound v noise.
  • Soundscape.
  • Speech privacy.
  • Structure-borne sound.
  • Volume.

See also: Waveform distortion noise.

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