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2. Building envelope - Wikipedia

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   In order to achieve these objectives, all building enclosure systems must include a solid structure, a drainage plane, an air barrier, a thermal barrier, and may include a vapor barrier. Moisture control (e.g. damp proofing) is essential in all climates, but cold climates and hot-humid climates are especially demanding. [8]

3. Noise control - Wikipedia

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   Many of these techniques rely upon material science applications of constructing sound baffles or using sound-absorbing liners for interior spaces. Industrial noise control is a subset of interior architectural control of noise, with emphasis on specific methods of sound isolation from industrial machinery and for protection of workers at their ...

4. Soundproofing - Wikipedia

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   The main focus of a residential sound program in existing structures is the windows and doors. Solid wood doors are a better sound barrier than hollow doors. [9] Curtains can be used to dampen sound, either through use of heavy materials or through the use of air chambers known as honeycombs. Single-, double- and triple-honeycomb designs ...

5. Sound baffle - Wikipedia

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   The technology for accurate prediction of the effects of noise barrier design using a computer model to analyze roadway noise has been available since the early 1970s. The earliest published scientific design of a noise barrier may have occurred in Santa Clara County, California in 1970 for a section of the Foothill Expressway in Los Altos, California.

6. Sound transmission class - Wikipedia

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   Sound Transmission Class (or STC) is an integer rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound. In the US, it is widely used to rate interior partitions, ceilings, floors, doors, windows and exterior wall configurations. Outside the US, the ISO Sound Reduction Index (SRI) is used.

7. Why You Should Always Close the Interior Doors in Your Home ...

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   Closing all interior doors helps disperse the pressure throughout your home, reducing the effect that all of that force can have on your roof — basically the one thing that separates you from ...

8. Architectural acoustics - Wikipedia

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   The typical sound paths are ceilings, room partitions, acoustic ceiling panels (such as wood dropped ceiling panels), doors, windows, flanking, ducting and other penetrations. Technical solutions depend on the source of the noise and the path of acoustic transmission , for example noise by steps or noise by (air, water) flow vibrations.

9. This is why you should always close the interior doors in ...

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   It may sound like common sense to some, but when a storm like Irma brings strong winds, homes are placed under extreme pressure. And wind entering a home through an open window can place even more ...