| Download | - View final version: Acoustical Design Guide for Open Offices (PDF, 574 KiB)
|
|---|
| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/20377814 |
|---|
| Author | Search for: Warnock, A. C. C.1 |
|---|
| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
|
|---|
| Format | Text, Technical Report |
|---|
| Physical description | 23 p. |
|---|
| Subject | Open-plan offices [cubicles]; Office acoustics |
|---|
| Abstract | This design guide was prepared as part of a research project funded by PWGSC to investigate speech privacy in open-plan offices. Two major types of work area in open offices are currently in vogue:· cubicles where individual workstations are delineated by barriers and· the more open 'team-style' where groups of workers have unrestricted visual access among themselves but are shielded from adjacent work areas by barriers.Within the team-style work area, where sound paths are usually quite unobstructed, speech can be very intrusive. Since team-style work areas are usually separated from each other by fairly high barriers, offices incorporating this type of work area have the same problems with intrusive speech between work areas as found in offices having mainly cubicles. Thus, this guide gives, without detailed explanation, sets of recommendations to reduce the intrusiveness of speech in both types of office. (More information is available in the appendix and related reports.) Criteria are first given for reducing speech intrusion between cubicles because the same factors are important when considering sound transmission between team-style work areas. The problems specific to sound transmission within team-style areas are then dealt with. |
|---|
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
|---|
| Publisher | National Research Council of Canada |
|---|
| Series | |
|---|
| Language | English |
|---|
| Peer reviewed | No |
|---|
| NRC number | NRC-IRC-16194 |
|---|
| NPARC number | 20377814 |
|---|
| Export citation | Export as RIS |
|---|
| Report a correction | Report a correction (opens in a new tab) |
|---|
| Record identifier | be4e91b9-71aa-4010-826d-05cc6dbc534d |
|---|
| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
|---|
| Record modified | 2022-10-13 |
|---|
