Noise
Articles on Designing Buildings Wiki about sound, noise and acoustics include:
- 2015 Government response to media reports about noise complaints
- Airborne noise
- Approved Document E.
- Ash deafening.
- Audio frequency.
- Best practicable means.
- Building acoustics.
- Building Bulletin 93: acoustic design of schools.
- Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.
- Decibel.
- Flanking noise
- Flanking sound.
- Impact noise
- New noise guidance
- Noise - doors and windows.
- Noise nuisance.
- Noise pollution
- Noise v sound
- Reverberation time.
- Sound absorption.
- Sound absorption coefficient.
- Sound frequency.
- Sound insulation.
- Sound masking.
- Sound v noise
- Speech privacy.
- Structure-borne sound.
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