Daniel Västfjäll, Chalmers University in Sweden, is involved in a project where they study the connection between what we hear and what we see – regarding disturbing work related sounds. In a laboratory, the researchers conducted a series of experiments to see how the same sound, having the same volume, affect people differently depending on […]
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EIAS Workshop – Open plan office acoustics
Claus-Moller Peterson (Grontmij) – photo by Martin Arvebro A workshop regarding open plan office acoustics was held at the Ecophon International Acousticians’ Seminar, in Bastad, Sweden, Sept 22nd. An opening lecture about open plan offices was held by Christina Bodin Danielsson entitled “The future office – a meeting place or something else? Which are the […]
Interview with Valtteri Hongisto – EIAS 2011
Ricardo Canto Leyton talks to Valtteri Hongisto from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Indoor environment, Finland. Hongisto has recently performed a study in Finland, of which he spoke about during the conference. All interviews from EIAS are also available in HQ via the Youtube channel youtube.com/acousticbulletin The Ecophon International Acousticians’ Seminar was held on […]
Acoustic Design of open-plan offices
The technical report entitled “Acoustic design of open-plan offices” from the Nordic Innovation Centre about the acoustic conditions in five open-plan offices situated in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland is now available on the webpage. The report proposes measurement procedures of the spatial decay parameters DL2 and DLf, which in turn can be converted to […]
Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices
A Danish study by Pejtersen JH, Feveile H, Christensen KB, Burr H claims that sickness absence increases when sharing offices and in open-plan spaces. The analysis was based on a national survey of Danish inhabitants between 18–59 years of age (response rate 62%), and the study population consisted of the 2403 employees that reported working […]
Six ways to get more peace in the office
A survey among 1200 employees shows that six in ten percieve the sounds in the workplace as disturbing. Sounds from the surrounding people, not computers or fans, disturbs the most. Frans Davidsson recently made recommendations based on the results from this study in swedish magazine Chef. Frans Davidsson, Concept Developer – Modern Office, Ecophon Sweden […]
Acoustic design of open-plan offices
We are pleased to announce that the final report entitled “Acoustic design of open-plan offices” from the Nordic Innovation Centre about the acoustic conditions in five open-plan offices situated in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland will shortly be published. This report will soon be available via download at the Nordic Innovation Centre Homepage. We’ll keep […]
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health research and guidance in Offices
TOTI is the name of a new project in Finland, coordinated by the Institute of Occupational Health, with the objective to provide holistic guidance in future office design. This unique project combines environmental psychology, acoustics, ventilation, HVAC design and real estate business. For more info and for pdf download click here
Noise in warehouses and open plan solutions
Pierre Chigot made an interview with Nicolas Trompette, who is working at INRS. INRS is a French Institute competent in the area of occupational risk prevention. Nicolas, presented a paper about noise in warehouses and also has a specific interest in sound in open plan solutions. INRS is a French Institute competent in the area […]
Interview with Valtteri Hongisto from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Pauli Pallaskorpi caught up with Valtteri, a Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health during the conference at Inter-noise 2010. Click here for more about Valtteri’s work
