The classification of dwellings according to different building performances has been proposed through many schemes worldwide in recent years. The general idea behind these schemes relates to the positive impact a higher label, and thus a better performance, should have. In particular, focusing on sound insulation performance, national schemes for sound classification of dwellings have been dev...

The acoustic insulation provided by separating walls has been studied for many years, with the first publications dating from the early part of the 20th century [1]. Since then, different analytical and numerical models, for predicting the sound transmission via single and multi-panel walls, have been proposed. However, given the large number of variables of this problem and the uncertainties i...

the quality of the communication between teachers and students and ultimately, of classroom education itself, is closely linked to the acoustic quality of the auditorium. this acoustic quality can be characterized based on the reverberation time (rt), speech transmission index (sti) and the sound insulation. in this context, an acoustic study was conducted in an auditorium located in the higher...

Between 1990 and 1998, the author published five conference papers which described the gradual development of a simple theoretical model for predicting the sound insulation of building partitions. The first aim was to extend Sharp’s model for cavity walls to cavities without sound absorption. The second aim was to remove the reported over prediction of Sharp’s model for cavity walls. The third ...