To what extent does a ceiling contribute to privacy between work stations?
The concept of speech privacy in offices relates to the degree of speech disturbance between two individuals who are not in conversation with each other. One is talking and the other one “happens to hear”:
* speech is intrusive since it is not useful to the listener (poor speech privacy = disturbance)
* speech of personal character is “leaking” from the speaker to surrounding workstations. (poor speech privacy = frustration)
An acoustic ceiling’s ability to effectively dampen speech energy within the critical frequency intervals is therefore crucial. This quality can be described by mean of a single value: Articulation Class (AC).
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