Terminology Relating to Building and Environmental Acoustics

Abstract Elżbieta M. Walerian, Ph.D., D.Sc., a retired employee of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN), passed away after a serious illness, on the 26th December 2013. She was one of the scientific leaders in the Section of Environmental Acoustics of IPPT PAN and her career, educational and organizational activities were inseparably linked with the acoustics. Elżbieta Walerian was born on August 9th 1950 in Poznań. She graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, receiving her Master of Science degree in the environmental acoustics in 1973. Five years later, under the supervision of Professor Ignacy Malecki, she obtained her PhD title, in the physical acoustics, in IPPT PAN in Warsaw. In 1979 she began working at the Section of Environmental Acoustics of IPPT PAN, where she dealt with the diffraction of acoustic waves and a description of the sound field produced by vehicles moving in an urban area.

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News from the Coordinating Committee on Environmental Acoustics: Interaction between man‐made noise and vibration and arctic marine wildlife

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.386959 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 1190-1191

Author(s):

Edgar A. G. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Noise And Vibration ◽

Environmental Acoustics ◽

Marine Wildlife

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Proacustica Handbook: noise and vibration control in building installations

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings ◽

10.3397/in-2021-2948 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 263 (1) ◽

pp. 5057-5062

Author(s):

Jose Nepomuceno ◽

Priscila Wunderlich

Keyword(s):

Vibration Control ◽

Vibration Isolation ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Room Acoustics ◽

Noise And Vibration ◽

Technical Content ◽

Working Groups ◽

Environmental Acoustics ◽

The Subject ◽

The Moment

Proacústica is a nonprofit entity created in 2010 to congregate companies and professionals willing to leverage the development of acoustics in Brazil. Three technical committees (TCs): Environmental Acoustics, Building Acoustics, and Room Acoustics, contribute to the drafting of laws, standards, production of technical content, and integration between different players of the market. By 2021, the Room Acoustics TC incorporated three Working Groups: Special Rooms, Schools and Noise Control and Vibration Control - the last one dedicated to the Proacustica Handbook: Noise and Vibration Control In Building Installations. The purpose of this publication is to describe the step-by-step measures to implement noise and vibration control strategies in buildings. These strategies are aimed at the particularities of the Brazilian market at the moment and also a way to improve how M/E/P equipment manufacturers, installers, designers, and acoustic consultants approach the subject from the design to the construction, Important technical discussions among participants included: the use of sound pressure versus sound power data for equipment; the sound rating for diffusers, VAVs, and other ductwork devices; vibration isolation guidelines, among other topics. This paper presents the Handbook structure, relevant discussions, and recommendations to be published as a final document by the end of 2021.

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