Traffic noise reduction due to the screening effect of balconies on a building façade

✍ Scribed by Effat A. Mohsen; D.J. Oldham

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 588 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-682X
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-682x(77)90010-x

✦ Synopsis

In this paper we discuss the use of self protecting buildings as a means of reducing traffic noise nuisance. The results obtained from a computer model of one selfprotecting configuratiqn, namely a closed balcony shielding a window into a room, are compared with measurements made on a 1 : 10 scale model of this situation. From a comparison of these results an empirical equation is given which permits the benefits of a closed balcony to be predicted from the application of standard noise screen formulae.

Since the degree of annoyance experienced by people exposed to traffic noise has been shown to be influenced by temporal variations of level, the computer model was extended to enable the effect of the balcony on this variability to be assessed.