Sound Insulation of Energy Efficient Facade Construction

2015 ◽  
Vol 801 ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Ana Vukadinović ◽  
Jasmina Radosavljević ◽  
Milan Protić ◽  
Jelena Malenović-Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Environmental Noise ◽  
Sound Insulation ◽  
Community Noise ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Noise Management

Environmental noise affects a large number of people. It is estimated that 20% of the EU population, or around 80 million people live in conditions of unacceptable noise. Three key possibilities for community noise management are control at the source of noise, control at the path from source to receiver and protection at the place of reception. In all three cases, noise should be reduced to the lowest level achievable in the particular situation. This study deals with the problem of protection against community noise at the receiving site. The paper considers the energy efficient façade construction and how they contribute to the protection of noise in urban areas.

scholarly journals Protection against traffic noise in urban areas in relation to noise control plans

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 075-082
Author(s):  
Janusz Bohatkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Traffic Noise ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Noise Barriers ◽  
Control Solution ◽  
Noise Mapping ◽  
Traffic Calming ◽  
The Eu

Exposure to traffic noise belongs to the most harmful impacts affecting people who live in towns. Nearly one third of residents of big towns in Poland suffers from permanent exposure to traffic noise, which may have adverse effects on health. The same refers to most European cities. The problems of noise is regulated by identical legislation in the EU and in Poland. Noise control in big towns arises from regulations related to obligatory provision of noise mapping and noise control plans. The plans contain, among other things, site-specific methods of protection against traffic noise. Those sites are defined by means of the “M” index, whose value is the higher the more people live in the area and the more permissible noise levels are exceeded. The noise control plans prepared to-date contain a range of methods and measures aimed at ensuring protection against traffic noise. In many cases those methods are nothing but improvised response and are not effective enough in towns, for example noise barriers. Results of pilot research indicates that comprehensive physical traffic calming measures may prove to be an effective and long lasting noise control solution in the surrounding of streets in urban areas. Physical traffic calming may be more effective than the measures commonly used so far which does not require additional land acquisition.

scholarly journals The importance of changing urban scenery in the assessment of citizens’ soundscape perception. On the need for different time-related points of view

Noise Mapping ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-161
Author(s):  
Jerónimo Vida Manzano ◽  
José Antonio Almagro Pastor ◽  
Rafael García Quesada
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Complementary Method ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Abstract The city of Granada is experimenting a big urban transformation, attending national and international commitments on clean air, energy efficiency and savings linked to greenhouse gases reduction strategies and sustainable development action plans. This situation constitutes a good scenario for new noise control approaches that take into account the sound variable and citizens empowering in urban design, such as the soundscape assessment of urban territory. In this way, soundscape tools have been used in Granada as a complementary method for environmental noise characterisation where traditional noise control techniques are difficult to be carried out or give limited results. After 2016 strategic noise map and in the preparation of the new noise action plan, the city came across a great acoustic challenge in a new area located outskirts characterised by growing urbanisation, still under development, the greatest legal protection because of sensitive teaching and hospital buildings and the greatest noise exposure from nearby ring-way supporting heavy traffic flow. As quiet urban areas are not characterised by the absence of noise but for the presence of the right noise, this research intended to provide the local administration with results and proposals to transform this conflict area in a pleasant or quiet urban place. Main results came from important and significative differences in morning and evening characterisation, as great differences appear in soundscape assessment over the day and along the soundwalk path, indicating the importance of time and local issues to adequately characterised citizens perception to be considered by administration in the development of strategies and effective noise control actions.

Updating the U.S. environmental noise management strategy

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Lawrence S. Finegold ◽  
Michiko So Finegold
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Environmental Noise ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Noise Management

Aircraft Noise Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (6) ◽  
pp. 626-634
Author(s):  
Francesca Remigi ◽  
Daniele Sepulcri ◽  
Shanti Wisniewska ◽  
Kalil Nayer Nouri
Keyword(s):  
Noise Control ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Discrete Solution ◽  
Noise Abatement ◽  
Noise Management

Several studies predict an increase up to 40% in traffic flights by the 2040. Airport noise control is a complicated procedure which creates an interesting blend of science, politics, and money. Accordingly, in many communities where airport noise is perceived as a significant problem, a noise control program is sometimes viewed as a continual process, rather than a discrete solution which will come to an end at some point in time.This work is an overview in the existing European low framework and the noise abatement procedure put in place to manage the aircraft noise.

scholarly journals URBANIZATION AND DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH (THE CASE OF NUTS 2 REGIONS OF EUROPEAN UNION)

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Michaela Staníčková ◽  
Lukáš Melecký
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
European Union ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Endogenous Factors ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Regional Development Policies ◽  
The Eu

Regional development policies based on local potential triggers a shift in the economic structure of territories. Exogenous and endogenous factors determine potential of regional development and it is necessary to use different indicators and methods to its evaluation. For the paper purpose, it is required to define metropolitan and peripheral functions as well as urban areas in the form of geographic models, depicting their spatial distribution in the European Union (EU). Nowadays, regions are increasingly becoming the drivers of the economy. All regions possess development opportunities – however, use these options enough, and hence the competitiveness of regions must be efficient enough. The paper focuses on dividing the EU NUTS 2 regions based on geographic models of the European economy into efficient and inefficient ones and identifying an optimal benchmark for inefficient regions as a strategy for enhancing their economic structure to measure regional efforts and progress.

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