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Sound & Vibration 2.0 [electronic resource] : Design Guidelines for Health Care Facilities / edited by David Sykes, Gregory C. Tocci, William J. Cavanaugh.
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- ISBN: 9781461449874
- Physical Description: XVIII, 81 p. 11 illus. in color. online resource.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : 2013.
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| Note to Readers: | ||
| Table of Contents | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Process Overview & Acknowledgements | ||
| Development Timeline | ||
| 1 Site Exterior Noise | ||
| 1.1 General | ||
| 1.2 Applicable Federal, State, and Local Codes and Regulations | ||
| 1.3 Classification of non-facility produced exterior noise exposure | ||
| 1.3.1 Exterior noise classifications | ||
| A1.3 Procedure for determining composite sound transmission class rating (STCc) | ||
| 1.4 Classification of facility produced exterior noise exposure | ||
| 1.4.1 Heliports | ||
| 1.4.2 Emergency power generators | ||
| 1.4.3 Outdoor mechanical equipment | ||
| 1.4.4 Building services | ||
| 2 Acoustical Finishes and Details | ||
| 2.1 General | ||
| 2.2 Applicable Federal, State and Local Codes and Regulations | ||
| 2.3 Design Criteria for Acoustical Finishes | ||
| A2.3 Determination of Design Room Average Sound Absorption Coefficient ( design) and Room Sound Absorption Factors (AR, sf) | ||
| 2.4 Considerations for NICUs (from Standard 21: Ceiling Finishes) | ||
| A2.4.2 Interpretation: | ||
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| 3 Room Noise Levels | ||
| 3.1 General | ||
| 3.2 Federal, State and Local Codes, Regulations, and Guidelines | ||
| 3.3 Design Criteria for Room Noise Levels | ||
| 3.4 Conformance measurements of room sound level | ||
| A3.4.1 Determination of Room Noise Level | ||
| A3.4.2 Effect of Background Noise on Clinical Hearing Ability | ||
| A3.4.3 Discussion of Background Noise Rating Criteria | ||
| 3.5 Considerations for NICUs (from Standard 23: Acoustic Environment) | ||
| A3.5.1 Interpretation: | ||
| A3.5.2 Interpretation:.- 4 Sound Isolation Performance of Constructions | ||
| 4.1 General | ||
| 4.2 Applicable Federal, State and Local Codes and Regulation | ||
| 4.3 Design guidelines for sound isolation between enclosed rooms | ||
| A4.3.1 Typical partitions | ||
| A4.3.2 Extraordinary partitions | ||
| A4.3.3 Composite Sound Transmission Class (STCc) | ||
| 4.4 Design guidelines for speech privacy between enclosed rooms | ||
| A4.4 Enclosed Room Speech Privacy Design Guidance | ||
| 4.5 Design guidelines for speech privacy in open-plan spaces | ||
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| 4.5 Open Plan Speech Privacy Design Guidance | ||
| 4.6.1 Considerations for NICUs (from Standard 23: Acoustic Environment) | ||
| 4.6.2 Considerations for NICUs (from Standard 23: Acoustic Environment) | ||
| Speech Privacy References: | ||
| A4.6 Interpretation: | ||
| 5 Paging & Call Systems, Clinical Alarms, Masking Systems & Sound Reinforcement | ||
| 5.1 General | ||
| 5.2 Applicable Federal, State and Local Codes and Regulation | ||
| 5.3 Paging and Call Systems | ||
| 5.4 Clinical alarms | ||
| A5.4 Audibility of tonal alarms | ||
| 5.5 Masking Systems | ||
| 5.6 Sound Reinforcement | ||
| 5.7 Considerations for NICUs (from Standard 23: Acoustic Environment) | ||
| A5.7 Interpretation: | ||
| References | ||
| 6 Building Vibration | ||
| 6.1 General | ||
| 6.2 Applicable Federal, State and Local Codes and Design Guides | ||
| 6.3 Vibration Control and Isolation | ||
| 6.3.1 Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Equipment (MEP) | ||
| 6.3.2 Structural | ||
| 6.3.3 Structureborne sound | ||
| 6.3.4 Medical and laboratory instrumentation | ||
| Glossary | ||
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| Partial List of Abbreviations | ||
| References | ||
| New references:. | ||
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