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Improvement of the sound comfort of a restaurant room: school canteen

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Published: 04 January 2023

Improving the sound comfort of a restaurant room such as a school canteen is often required, when users (children taking their meals) and service personnel complain about poor acoustics, in relation to excessive reverberation, the sounds emitted during conversations, discussions (more or less animated), being reflected on the hard surfaces of the space considered, when it is insufficiently provided with materials capable of absorbing them:

• noise levels are increased, with everyone raising...

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Reduction of industrial noise nuisance

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Published: 07 December 2022

The reduction of industrial noise nuisance is a key step in a project to build, renovate or bring into compliance a facility for the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. materials, energy, food) or the transformation of raw materials.

Indeed, various regulations must be considered to avoid noise nuisance in the industrial sector:

• to preserve the health of workers with respect to noise exposure^[1]
• to protect the environment against the risk of noise pollution^[2]

Otherwise, the...

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Acoustic treatment of a catering room in a school (canteen)

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Published: 08 November 2022

The acoustic treatment of a catering room in a school (canteen) meets different needs in terms of sound environment :

• provide students who go there with conditions conducive to having a meal, a restful break in their studious day, children’s discussions
• enable service personnel to have acceptable working conditions

Thus, catering premises in schools (canteens) devoid of sound-absorbing materials of sufficient quality and quantity and/or not allowing the necessary decrease in noise...

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