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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