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Reduction of sound emissions from a noisy building site machinery

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Reducing noise emissions from noisy building site machineries is a recurring problem, since noise related to works e.g. drilling and earthworks (including in particular the use of excavators, hydraulic shovels, post drivers or other machines) can harm the tranquility of local residents over sometimes very long time intervals.

Complaints due to neighborhood annoyance are then not uncommon, often illustrating very real inconveniences that must be taken into consideration by civil...

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Acoustics - Soundproofing of teaching and training rooms

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ITS will participate in a soundproofing project for teaching and training rooms in Paris (France) to improve their acoustic quality.

It will be a question of alleviating the mediocrity, in terms of sound comfort, of a recent construction, devoid of any acoustic material, i.e. likely to significantly absorb sound, with particularly harmful consequences as regards the use of these teaching and training rooms (in terms of intelligibility of speech which is very poor there, while...

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Noise control in the power generation industry - ITS

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Noise control in the power generation industry is a necessity:

  • to maintain acceptable working conditions for employees of power plants, by sufficiently limiting their exposure to noise, according to European Directive 2003/10/EC, which considers as indicators:

Subcategories

Work - protection against noise Article Count:  16

Sound environment Article Count:  35

Energy - noise emissions Article Count:  58

Testing rooms - acoustics Article Count:  8

Building - acoustic comfort Article Count:  37