Case-study evaluations of the acoustical designs of renovated university classrooms

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-89

  Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Classrooms; Renovation; Reverberation; Speech intelligibility; Speech level; Student activity noise; Ventilation noise

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; COMMUNICATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

VENTILATION NOISE;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0142011622     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(03)00108-7     Document Type: Article

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