Soundscape Assessment for Indoor Spaces: A case of the Higher Education Environment

Abstract As a concept, an indoor soundscape is innovative approach to building environments with shape that "sounds good," meeting the preferences and needs of occupants established according their unique perception. This paper presents assessment regarding objective acoustic parameters such as equivalent noise levels (Leq) reverberation time (RT), subjective method including questionnaire survey (n = 403) in three buildings Engineering Al-Azhar university. The data analyses were conducted using SPSS v.21 statistical software. Overall, results show associated five factors are: environment factors, demographics social sound sources, duration measurement, non-acoustic parameters. conceptual framework showed relations between environment, built auditory perception university students staff. Various present series problems based on different activities change users, so outcomes feature importance future considering type activity key factor assessing effects humans.