Noise Control & Acoustic Design

Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing.

• True

• False

There are structure-borne sound and airborne sound.

• True

• False

Listening to loud music instead of loud noise will not affect our hearing.

• True

• False

Among impacts of noise are:- (you can select more than 1 answer)

• Hearing Loss

• Stress

• Habit of Shouting

• Psychiatric Disorder

Most reported cases for Occupational Disease and Poisoning in 2017 are noise-related.

• True

• False

To reduce noise, measures can be taken at... (you can select more than 1 answer)

• Source

• In Path

• Listener

Architects are only responsible to reduce noise at receiver's level.

• True

• False

Eliminating noise at the source is more effective than solving noise problems at receiver's level.

• True

• False

The following are the main noise control methods (you can select more than 1 answer)

• Acoustical Site Planning

• Barrier

• Acoustical Building Construction Method / Material

• Acoustical Architectural Design

• Increasing Natural Ventilation

Noise can be reduced by better acoustical site planning such as (you can select more than 1 answer)

• Increase distance between noise and receiver

• Place less noise-sensitive space/building between noise and receiver

• Orientating receiver's building away from noise

• Clustered Planning Development

• Group buildings together without considering their acoustic needs