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American healthcare acoustics research presented at ICA 2019

2019-11-27 by Mai-Britt Beldam

Ilene Busch-Vishniac

Healthcare acoustics on the agenda What a privilege to attend ICA this year. Not only were we invited to a concert in the cathedral of Aachen but in the healthcare acoustics session, we had the opportunity to explore research from all over the world. Including 3 American papers on both noise reduction in neonatal care, […]

Harmful noise is prevalent in Danish schools

2019-01-11 by Morten Roar Berg

Round robin test on absorption (ISO 354:2003) conducted on 10.8 m2 glass wool (thickness 100 mm) in 7 European laboratories, 6 of which are standardized laboratories (adapted from Ref. 2)

An extensive well-being survey maps noise problems in Danish schools. About one in ten children from preschool to the third grade can’t hear the teachers instruction because of noise. Sound and acoustics is sadly often far down on the list of priorities in the design of buildings. However, this problem becomes particularly absurd when even […]

Are restaurants and bars too loud in New York City? Landmark case study….

2018-09-24 by Colin Campbell

An evidence-based study to raise noise pollution awareness was presented last month at INTER-NOISE 2018 in Chicago by Gregory Scott, Founder of SoundPrint. This is, according to the Abstract: The first large-scale study conducted on sound levels, using the novel SoundPrint smartphone app, of more than 2250 venues in New York City shows that the average […]

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