Building acoustics throughout Europe Volume 2: Housing and construction types country by country

571 Pages·2014·50.28 MB·English

COST Action TU0901:
Integrating and Harmonizing Sound Insulation Aspects
in Sustainable Urban Housing Constructions
Building acoustics throughout Europe
Volume 2: Housing and construction
types country by country
Chair: Birgit Rasmussen Vice Chair: María Machimbarrena
SBi, Danish Building Research Institute Architecture School; Applied Physics Dpt.
Aalborg University University of Valladolid
Denmark Spain
Australia | Austria | Belgium | Canada | Croatia | Czech Republic | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany
Greece | Hungary | Iceland | Italy | Lithuania | Macedonia | Malta | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway
Poland | Portugal | Romania | Serbia | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | United Kingdom
COST Action
TU0901
ESF provides the COST Office COST is supported COST Action
through a European Commission contract by EU RTD Framework Programme TU0901
Editorial board:
Birgit Rasmussen, María Machimbarrena and Patrizio Fausti
Reviewers:
Teresa Carrascal, Ed Clarke, Patrizio Fausti, Eddy Gerretsen, Bart Ingelaere,
María Machimbarrena, Jeffrey Mahn, Birgit Rasmussen
Cover design:
Stefano Pedersoli
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Preface
Neighbour noise is a significant problem having had insufficient attention
for decades, both for existing housing and new housing. Time had come
to solve the challenges by establishing a common framework in building
acoustics throughout Europe. As a consequence, the research network,
COST Action TU0901 “Integrating and Harmonizing Sound Insulation
Aspects in Sustainable Urban Housing Constructions” was established to
initiate and support a process towards such framework.
COST TU0901 considered the main tool to be an acoustic classification
scheme for dwellings – implying definition of a number of quality classes –
combined with knowledge about housing constructions complying with
the class criteria.
During the four years official lifetime of COST TU0901, close research
cooperation and discussions have taken place between around 90 experts
from 29 European countries and 3 overseas countries participating in
COST TU0901. Most of the work was done in or through the three TU0901
working groups.
The findings from COST TU0901 are presented in two books with the joint
main title “Building acoustics throughout Europe”. Volume 1 describes
the background, the current situation and the main findings from the
working groups. Volume 2 consists of country chapters describing the
national housing stock, construction types and related sound insulation
performance in countries involved in COST TU0901.
We hope all the work presented herein will be used to meet our main
objective, which is no other than providing “sustainable, quieter homes
all over Europe”, and maybe beyond.
The cooperation initiated in COST TU0901 will continue in many ways,
including standardization groups and research projects, thus supporting
the process towards quieter European homes.
April 2014
Birgit Rasmussen – Chair of COST TU0901
María Machimbarrena – Vice Chair of COST TU0901
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Contents
Preface ................................................................................................ 4
Introduction
Sean Smith, Patrizio Fausti ................................................................. 8
Chapter 1. Austria
Judith Lang, Herbert Muellner ........................................................... 11
Chapter 2. Belgium
Bart Ingelaere ...................................................................................... 35
Chapter 3. Croatia
Marko Horvat ...................................................................................... 75
Chapter 4. Czech Republic
Jiri Novacek ........................................................................................ 92
Chapter 5. Denmark
Dan Hoffmeyer, Birgit Rasmussen ...................................................... 102
Chapter 6. Estonia
Marko Ründva, Linda Madalik ............................................................ 119
Chapter 7. Finland
Heikki Helimäki, Matias Remes, Pekka Taina ...................................... 131
Chapter 8. France
C. Guigou-Carter, J.-L. Kouyoumji, N. Balanant, J.-B. Chéné ............ 149
Chapter 9. Germany
Martin Schneider, Andreas Ruff, Heinz-Martin Fischer....................... 170
Chapter 10. Greece
Konstantinos Vogiatzis ........................................................................ 179
Chapter 11. Hungary
A. B. Nagy, G. Józsa ........................................................................... 189
Chapter 12. Iceland
Steindór Guðmundsson ...................................................................... 202
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Chapter 13. Italy
P. Fausti, S. Secchi, A. Di Bella, F. Scamoni ......................................... 214
Chapter 14. Lithuania
Vidmantas Dikavicius, Kestutis Miskinis ............................................. 238
Chapter 15. Macedonia
Todorka Samardzioska ........................................................................ 259
Chapter 16. Malta
Vincent Buhagiar, Noella Cassar ......................................................... 273
Chapter 17. Netherlands
Wim Beentjes ...................................................................................... 285
Chapter 18. Norway
Clas Ola Høsøien, Iiris Turunen-Rindel ................................................ 314
Chapter 19. Poland
A. Izewska, B. Szudrowicz, R. Ciszewski ............................................. 323
Chapter 20. Portugal
Julieta António, Jorge Patrício, Sónia Antunes .................................. 335
Chapter 21. Romania
Marta Cristina Zaharia, Mirel Florin Delia ........................................... 352
Chapter 22. Serbia
Miomir Mijic´, Ana Radivojevic´, Dragana Šumarac Pavlovic´,
Draško Mašovic´, Milica Jovanovic´ Popovic´, Dušan Ignjatovic´,
Aleksandar Rajcˇic´ ................................................................................ 373
Chapter 23. Slovakia
Juraj Medved’, Vojtech Chmelík, Andrea Vargová ............................. 388
Chapter 24. Slovenia
M. Ramšak, M. Cˇudina ........................................................................ 415
Chapter 25. Spain
T. Carrascal García, M. Machimbarrena, C. Monteiro ........................ 427
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Chapter 26. Sweden
K. Larsson, K. Hagberg, C. Simmons .................................................. 453
Chapter 27. Switzerland
Victor Desarnaulds .............................................................................. 471
Chapter 28. Republic of Turkey
Selma Kurra ......................................................................................... 504
Chapter 29. United Kingdom
Sean Smith, Ed Clarke ......................................................................... 523
Chapter 30. Australia
John Laurence Davy ............................................................................ 541
Chapter 31. New Zealand
Jeffrey Mahn ....................................................................................... 563
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COST Action
TU0901
Building acoustics throughout Europe
Volume 2: Housing and construction
types country by country
Introduction
Authors:
Sean Smith
Patrizio Fausti
1 Institute for Sustainable Construction, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
e-mail: [email protected]
2 Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
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Building acoustics throughout Europe - Volume 2:
COST Action
Housing and construction types country by country TU0901
Introduction
This book covering key aspects of building acoustic construction for
dwellings found in 31 countries is the second volume of “Building
acoustics throughout Europe”. It represents some of the main
discussions and gathering of data undertaken by Working Group 3
(WG3) of COST Action TU0901 and also participating country members
from WG1 and WG2.
TU0901 provided the platform to bring 32 countries together to discuss,
share research findings and also plan future joint research towards
improving the quality of life for future residential occupants through a
more harmonized approach to sound insulation.
To undertake the purpose of data gathering across so many countries
“project mosaic” was initiated by WG3 members. There was a rich diversity
of data, databases, building systems and solutions found across the
participating countries. The interim regular meetings of the COST Action
TU0901 over 4 years allowed “project mosaic” data to be gathered and
presented at each meeting. This allowed a better understanding of each
country, the differences and similarities in building design, construction
materials, innovative products and common workmanship factors.
This compilation of 31 countries data is not an exhaustive review of each
country but provides more specific details and sound insulation
performance characteristics than Volume 1 Chapters 9, 10 and 11 giving
information across all countries. In addition, in this Volume 2, various data
is also presented including construction details, historical trends, building
regulations and guidance found in countries.
As with energy systems for buildings involving thermal mass of concrete, so
acoustics construction systems for walls and floors in heavyweight materials
provide mass and stiffness. Similarly the multi-component lightweight wall
and floor systems involve properties of isolation, resilience and stiffness
which have an important role in reducing sound transmission. There are
clear geographical similarities across countries such as central and southern
Europe using perforated clay block wall systems and parts of northern
Europe using more lightweight timber construction. Nevertheless
commonalities in the use of concrete systems, lightweight steel and screed
floor finishes are found across all countries.
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Building acoustics throughout Europe - Volume 2:
COST Action
Housing and construction types country by country TU0901
The construction details, sound insulation data and information presented
in this Volume 2 would not have been possible without the contributions
of the key authors and their colleagues for each country. We wish to thank
all of the WG3 participants and all of the chapter authors for the
information they have provided which provides a unique acoustic tapestry
of building acoustics not only in Europe but also Australia and New
Zealand.
It is the hope that the COST TU0901 books will be a milestone towards
continued exchange of construction solutions and data between all
countries and that learning from each other will facilitate the process
towards quieter European homes.
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