TR5003:03
Acoustic Design
Townsville
39 contact hours. First and second semester. On-campus and flexible delivery.
Explore the conflicts between openings for natural ventilation and the propagation and transmission of sound within and between buildings, basics of sound level measurement and human response to noise and methods for estimating sound transmission in buildings and attenuation outdoors including directivity effects.
Learning Objectives:
- ability to design new buildings and groups of buildings to minimise unwanted sound;
- ability to suggest methods for reducing unwanted sound in existing built environments in the tropics.
Assessment by essay (60%); examination (40%).
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