In Pursuit of Acoustical Equity

Controlling the properties of sound within the built environment
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By Viken Koukounian, Ph.D., P.Eng., and Niklas Moeller
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End Notes

1G. J. Allen, P. MacNaughton, J. G. Cendeno Laurent, S. S. Flanigan, E. S. Eitland, and J. D. Spengler. “Green Buildings and Health.” Global Environmental Health and Sustainability. 2015. Web. 3 June 2021

2Talitha Liu and Lexi Tsien. “The Office as We Knew It No Longer Exists.” Azure. 6 August 2020. Web. 3 June 2021

3See Hao Ko and Lisa Cholmondeley. “Equity, Interrupted: How a Return to the Office Is Needed to Rebuild Equity.” 2 September 2020. Web. 3 June 2021

4Work Better: It’s time for an experience that’s fundamentally better.” Web. 3 June 2021

5B. Rasmussen and O. Ekholm, “Is noise annoyance from neighbours in multistory housing associated with fatigue and sleeping problems?” Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA). Aachen, Germany. 2019.

6Kris Putnam-Walkerly & Elizabeth Russel. “What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?Stanford Social Innovation Review. 15 September 2016. Web. 3 June 2021

7Equity by Design: Redefining ‘Senior Living’ | A Conversation with Stephanie Firestone, Esther Greenhouse, and Dr. Bill Thomas.” Gensler Design Exchange Podcast. 29 October 2020. Web. 3 June 2021

8K.L. Jensen. “Acoustical quality in office workstations, as assessed by occupant surveys.” Indoor Air 2005. and D. Artan, E. Ergen and I. Tekce. “Acoustical Comfort in Office Buildings.” Seventh Annual International Conference – ACE 2019 Architecture and Civil Engineering.

9J. Keranen and V. Hongisto. “Prediction of the spatial decay of speech in open-plan offices.” Applied Acoustics. 2013. Web. 3 June 2021

10, 11W.J. Cavanaugh, W.R. Farrell, P.W. Hirtle, and B.G. Watters. “Speech privacy in buildings.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Web. 3 June 2021

12Breaking out of our entrenched ways requires a coordinated effort, not only of building professionals but also of the tools available at their disposal. There is growing realization that improvement at a component level is reaching practical limits, promoting new interest in gaining system-level efficiencies through a more holistic approach to acoustical design. To learn more about the project savings engendered by a holistic approach, see “A New Approach to Acoustics: Using sound masking as a design platform” on Hanley Wood University.

13Although the evaluation of all contributing sound sources is complex, if engineers are able to align their specifications with acoustical expectations of the built environment, one can argue that it is even possible to avoid circumstances where overly stringent noise criteria force building systems to comply to unnecessarily low criteria.

14Although they are still often referred to as white noise systems, modern sound-masking technologies synthesize the spectrum and level of the sound that actually exists within the space.
 

Viken Koukounian, Ph.D., P.Eng., is an acoustical engineer at K.R. Moeller Associates Ltd. and an active member of numerous international standardization organizations ca.linkedin.com/in/vikenkoukounian

Niklas Moeller is the vice president of K.R. Moeller Associates Ltd., manufacturer of the LogiSon Acoustic Network and MODIO Guestroom Acoustic Control.

 

LogiSon Acoustic Network Our company has been dedicated to the design and manufacture of sound masking technologies for more than 40 years. After taking this course, we hope you find the topic of workplace acoustics less mysterious…and feel inspired to create spaces that sound as good as they look.

 

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Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in July 2021


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