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ACOUSTICS PRESENTATION

OWNERS CORPORATION NETWORK SEMINAR

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What is Sound ?                    

Sound is vibration is air or materials (ie a buildings structure).

Sound is a cyclic change of pressure.

The amount the pressure fluctuates determines the loudness of the sound. 

Sound propagates through the air, liquids or solids as waves, similar to a stone dropped in a pool of water. Naturally we cannot see these waves, but our ears sense the change in air pressure and we are able to perceive these as sound having loudness and a pitch.

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Loudness Scales

Human hearing does not perceive the loudness of low frequency sound evenly across the range of human hearing. 

Loudness of the sound in terms of a number output ‐ complex relationship between loudness/frequency/human perception.

Weighting scales to convert the loudness and frequency measured by a sound level meter into a single number rating. The most common is dB(A) or A‐weighted level.

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Structure Borne Noise

The structure is directly vibrated and the vibration is transmitted through the structure in all directions where this energy vibrates a surface in an space. The surface radiates the vibration as audible noise in the same way that a loudspeaker cone converts movement of the cone to audible sound.

Examples:Railway vibration, plant vibration, Demolition activitiesImpact noise, or foot fall noise.

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Airborne Noise

Sound that is transmitted via the air. Sound generated in one room reaches the wall or floor, vibrates that surface and then is re‐radiated by the surface on the other side of the wall or floor to the adjacent room.

Examples:TV’s and musicPeople talking

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Rating Walls and Floors for Sound Transmission

Impact Noise RatingIIC – Measure of hard floor impact isolation. IIC 35 bare concrete, IIC 50‐55 tile or timber floor with underlay, IIC 75 carpet.Lntw + C1 – Impact noise level used in current BCA. 75 ‐ bare concrete, 55‐60 tile or timber floor with underlay, 45 carpet

Airborne Noise RatingSound Transmission Class (STC) (USA standard) – Old BCA criteria and some councils (ie Sydney City Couuncil).RW ‐Weighted Sound Reduction Index (ISO standard) – Similar to STC –Used in current BCACtr – Traffic noise spectrum adaptation term – used in current BCA to correlate partition performance to low frequency noise sources such as home theatre. 

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Floor Requirements –Minimum Criteria

Descriptor

Legislation Sound TransmissionAir Borne noise

Impact RequirementStructure Borne Nosie

BCA Rw + Ctr 50 Ln,w + C1 < 62

Strata Management Schemes Act Refers to the BCA IIC 50

Sydney City Council FSTC 50-55 IIC 50

Body Corporate Crieria As detailed in By-Laws

As detailed in By-Laws

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Typical floor constructions

5mm Vibramat or equipment

150mm thick concrete slab

Ceramic tile flooring. Screed.

Stop wall and floor tiles 2-3mm short of edges and fill with resilient caulking compound

Wall.

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Vibra pad150mm thick concrete slab

Strip timber flooring.

Stop floor 5mm short of edges and fill with resilient caulking compound.

Skirting board 2-3mm above floor

Timber Battens

Wall.

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5mm Vibramat or similar

150mm thick concrete slab

Floating timber floor

Stop floor 2-3mm short of edges and fill with resilient caulkingcompound

Skirting board 2-3mm above floor

Wall.

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Testing Walls and Floors for Sound Transmission

Tapping Testing

Noise is generated by placing a standardised “tapping machine” on the floor and measuring the sound pressure levels are measured in the room under at several different frequencies. The sound levels are corrected to account for the acoustical properties of the receiving room.

Tapping machine

Flooring system

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Main Factors Affecting Impact Noise Performance

Mass of floor‐ This may be an issue for older buildings with light weight constructions (ie timber framed buildings).

Flanking paths – eg load bearing walls. Apparent performance of underlays in load bearing structure less than non‐load bearing.

Type of underlay used. Generally the softer the underlay the better the performance but this is limited by effect of entrained air and the need to maintain a solid substrate for tiles.

Installation errors such as nails through underlay, bridging of the perimeter gap, incorrect underlay etc.

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Criteria –Issues with By‐Laws

By‐Laws of buildings can specify a criteria over and above BCA or council DCP requirements. These criteria may in event render hard floorsimpractical as compliance is impossible, ie

Timber floor with a rating of IIC 55‐60 or greaterTiled floors with a IIC of 55 or greater

Some buildings By‐Laws indicate that replacing carpet floors with a hard floor finish is not possible. An acoustic engineer can not help with this issue!

Installing a hard floor in lieu of carpet, even with acoustic underlay, will not result is a similar performance to carpet.

Some buildings By‐Laws will require an acoustic report prior to installation and/or testing on completion of the hard floor.

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Hard Floors ‐ Tenant Activities‐ Expectations

A tenants use of their apartment will contribute to the noise impact to the neighbour below especially where had floors have been installed. That is an ‘extraneous’ activity will generate a noise level which is likely to cause complaints below, ie

Scraping of chairs and tables over hard floors.Children playing with balls, marbles, running, remote controlled cars etc.

Designated hard floor treatments will not mitigate noise from extraneous events.

Installing a hard floor in lieu of carpet, even with acoustic underlay, will not result is a similar performance to carpet.

Noise generated from hard floors is one of the greatest sources of complaint within residential apartments….. 

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