Architectural Acoustics Design Guide

Architectural Acoustics Design Guide

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Book Description
The only practical, solutions-oriented guide to the acoustical tools needed for designing a wide range of projects: open-plan offices, airport facilities, and more. Covers sound enhancement and noise control issues, with checklists, charts, and other project-evaluation tools. Complements the Architectural Acoustics CD-ROM; ideal for architects, interior designers, and landscape architects, and well-suited for continuing education use and licensing exam prep.

From the Back Cover
Deliver expert acoustical solutions to your clients with this one-of-a-kind guide that transforms theory into practice. This hands-on manual makes it a snap to design the acoustics you want. Written by noted authority James Cowan with the aid of his acoustical consulting firm Acentech, this manual shows you how to control noise and enhance sound in spaces of all types. Inside, you'll find just the right combination of easy-to-use tools, expert tips, and tested solutions.
Developed with over 50 years of international experience by leaders in acoustical design, this resource supplies illustrated answers, a generous assortment of working checklists, charts, and other project-advancing tools, and innovative solutions to many typical acoustical problems. Showing you what it takes to make your projects work acoustically, no matter what the challenges, Architectural Acoustics Design Guide lets you:

• Avoid common acoustical design mistakes.
• Enhance sound in settings such as orchestral halls and auditoriums.
• Control noise in rooms of all shapes.
• Create acoustical privacy in a variety of settings.
• Maximize sound privacy in open-plan offices.
• Design settings such as courtrooms for both appropriate noise control and acoustical projection.
• Stop sound from penetrating walls and floors.
• Understand the uses of masking and background noise.
• Moderate noise in facilities from schools to airports.

Architectural Acoustics Design Guide (Professional Architecture S.),Acentech,James P. Cowan,McGraw-Hill Professional,0071359389,Acoustics & Sound,Architectural Acoustics,Architectural Detail,Architecture,Decoration & Ornament,Design & Drafting,Interior Design - General,Architectural structure & design,Interior design,Science / Acoustics & Sound,Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)

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