Caice Acoustic Design Guide 2008-07-01
Caice Acoustic Design Guide 2008-07-01
Caice Acoustic Design Guide 2008-07-01
Guide
NR and NC Curves
CIBSE Noise Ratings
Environmental Noise Control
Maximum Air Velocities in Ducts
Privacy in Cellular Offices
Contents
Noise Curves
NR Curves and Table
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Speech levels
Privacy Criteria
Intelligible
Unintelligible
Inaudible
Average Noise
Reduction
Below 35 dB
35 to 40 dB
40 to 50 dB
50 to 55 dB
50 to 55 dB
Privacy Rating
Index
Low
Below 75dB
Medium
75 to 80 dB
High
80 to 90 dB
Very High
Above 90 dB
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The major benefit of this method is that the demountable partitions can be moved to modify the size and position of the cellular offices, without affecting privacy.
To achieve medium privacy a 40dB (Rw) partition system and
a 40dB (Dncw) ceiling system should be used as a minimum.
Budget suspended
ceiling system
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However because the partitioning is fixed, there is limited flexibility to subsequently change the office layouts.
Suspended
ceiling system
Ceiling acoustic performance is not critical, as the noise reduction between rooms is provided by the full height partition. Typically the return air crosstalk attenuator should be 1200mm long,
with an average insertion loss of 40dB between 500 and
4000Hz..
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