Reducing the acoustical façade load from road traffic with green roofs

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1081-1087

  Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Building geometry; Green roofs; Road traffic noise; Sound propagation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SHIELDING;

BUILDING GEOMETRY; FLAT ROOFS; GREEN ROOFS; HEAVY VEHICLES; LIGHT VEHICLES; NOISE ANNOYANCE; POSITIVE EFFECTS; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; STREET CANYONS; TRAFFIC SPEED;

ROOFS;

ACOUSTICS; BUILDING; NOISE; ROAD TRANSPORT; ROOF; SOUND PROPAGATION;

EID: 58749098236     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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