Dr. Nigel Oseland of Workplace Unlimited along with Paige Hodsman, Concept Developer for Offfice Environments in the UK and Ireland have conducted a literature review of over 100 research papers on how people respond to noise in the workplace. They found that scientific studies exploring the impact of noise on satisfaction report that on average sound only accounts […]
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Health and Productivity in Sustainable Buildings Report launched
Polish Ministry of Economy and the World Green Building Council joined the conferencewhere the White Paper about “Health and Productivity in Sustainable Buildings.”launches The connection between the office indoor environment quality and productivity is the topic of white paper which has been prepared and newly launched by BuroHappold Engineering (engineering consultants), along with Skanska, Colliers, […]
Planning for Psychoacoustics
A Psychological Approach to Resolving Office Noise Distraction – a literature review. Whats your favorite place to work? In the open plan office, meeting room, in the cafeteria or at your homedesk?. Do you like sounds around you or does it just makes you distrubed and frusterated? Linked to your persona perhaps? Reported noise annoyance does correlate […]
Workplace Trends: Spring Summit – The Healthy Workplace
The Healthy Workplace and Active Design are the buzz words of the moment. With Acoustic being on top of the agenda! The workplace has a significant impact on people’s health and well-being. Poor management of workplace health can lead to work-related ill health and to high levels of sickness absence. This gives real cause for concern, not […]
THE IMPORTANCE OF ACOUSTICS IN A SUCCESSFUL OFFICE
If you want to share figures about why acoustics is important in the Office, here you will find good info on the subject! Infographic Office Acoustic Figures
Smart Workspace Design Summit
Smart Workspace Design Summit Conference took place in Amsterdam on the 18-20th of March. People spend a substantial part of their lives working and the quality of their workplace experience is inevitably reflected in the quality of their lives. Bringing together WORKSPACE DESIGN DRIVERS, NEUROSCIENCE and WORK ENVIRONMENT FACTORS and by sharing WORKSPACE DESIGN CASE STUDIES […]
TABS Expert Meeting – Sound of Cool filmed presentations now available!
Keynote speakers: Susan Roaf of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh / Andrew Parkin of Cundall, UK The filmed presentations from the recent TABS Expert Meeting held on 25-26th September near Helsingborg are now available here. TABS stands for Thermally Activated Building System and is a design engineering approach for maintaining good thermal comfort in buildings, although unfortunately […]
Leesman index – changes how the workplace is measured
78% of employees say telephone conversations are an important workplace activity, yet 47% are dissatisfied with noise levels. Can the two ever be balanced? 53% of employees report that their workplace enables them to work productively. But can these figures be improved and what is the benefit to organisational performance? LeesmanIndex who works globally, is changing the […]
Acoustics big topic at International Facility Managers Conference
International Facility Management Association in Sweden yearly host Nordic Workplace. Read about the event here. The subjects are spread over a variety of subjects where acoustic topic “A Psychological Approach to Resolving Office Noise Distraction” where amongst the presentations. In the summary session the noise question got almost half the time discussing and addressing how the […]
TABS Expert Meeting held in Sweden
The first TABS Expert Meeting of it’s kind was held on 25-26th September near Helsingborg. TABS stands for Thermally Activated Building System and is a design engineering approach for maintaining good thermal comfort in buildings, although unfortunately this is often at the expense of a good acoustic environment. The purpose of the event is to […]
