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Healing environments – efforts and opportunities

2022-09-19 by Cees van Wezel

Healing environments

Visiting or staying in a hospital is an exciting experience for most people. In this environment, stimuli are perceived that can influence the situation in both a positive and negative way. Various studies have shown that noise levels in hospitals are too high for optimal healing. This blog is about how healing environments can contribute […]

Sustainable Acoustics at Internoise 2022

2022-08-31 by Maria Quinn

We continue on giving you highlights and summarise of a variety of subjects from Internoise in Glasgow, enjoy!   Abigail Bristow: From the cost of noise to the value of soundscape The past two decades have seen an ongoing paradigm shift from noise control to soundscaping. Soundscape approaches have been widely applied in traditional noise […]

Lily Wang and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: Wonderful key-note at Internoise in Glasgow.

2022-08-23 by Mai-Britt Beldam

If Michael Jackson was King of Pop – Lily Wang is Queen of acoustics! We feel so lucky to have been part of a legendary keynote presentation that made us laugh, wonder, reflect, and a bit star-struck! Lily has skills that go beyond her impressive professional merits: This lady excels on stage! Add to that […]

Ventilation through acoustic ceilings – What is diffuse ceiling ventilation?

2021-12-29 by Morten Roar Berg

Designing a holistic indoor environment can be challenging. It will often entail several compromises between quality of different aspects of well-being. It is extremely rare that a solution comes along that both enhances indoor comfort, reduces complexity of design while also saving money and lowering emissions. It definitely is extremely rare, but it happens. Diffuse […]

CleanMed conference on healthcare and sustainability

2012-09-29 by Alexey Archakov

26-28 September 2012 Healthcare without Harm organized CleanMed – creating healing environments – conference on sustainable healthcare. The conference gathered healthcare providers, sustainability organizations, and medical and building material suppliers to discuss and share successful initiatives from many different perspectives. The topics included diverse presentations from wastewater management to how to communicate internally to engage […]

Acoustics and sustainable building session at Euronoise

2012-06-13 by Colin Campbell

Building session Murray Hodgson chaired the interesting session focusing on sustainability. It is surprising that this subject and session were not bigger and perhaps also an indication of what still needs to be done to raise awareness and make sure acoustics give a higher standing in sustainable buildings. Perhaps an opportunity for the acoustical societies […]

Sustainable design and acoustics at ICA 2007 in Madrid

2007-09-20 by -

Alexis Kurtz from Arup Acoustics in New York presented a paper on the issue of sustainable and/or green buildings. She exposed a valuable overview of various green building rating systems globally. Sustainable design covers more than just environmental aspects – it also includes economic and societal benefits, she claims. Acoustics is often not included, leading […]

Sustainable acoustics

2007-09-05 by Marc Janssen

The world population has been multiplied by 1000 in 10.000 years. It’s obvious that if we want to safeguard the quality of living for future generations, we need to show environmental awareness and take measures already today. A definition of sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations […]

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