Effect of open-plan office noise on occupant comfort and performance

Jørn Toftum; Søren  Lund; Jesper Kristiansen; Geo Clausen

Effect of open-plan office noise on occupant comfort and performance

Jørn Toftum, Søren Lund, Jesper Kristiansen, Geo Clausen

Department of Civil Engineering

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Abstract

This study investigated effects on comfort, symptoms, and office work performance of exposure to office noise. Forty-nine subjects who were employees working in open-plan offices participated in two full-day experiments simulating an ordinary work day; one day with and one day without exposure to pre-recorded office noise. Exposure to office noise affected negatively ratings of adverse perceptions, selected symptoms, and self-assessed performance, but not the performance of the simulated office tasks. Occupants who in their daily work were disturbed by open-plan office noise were less tolerant to the noise exposure than those who were not.

Original language	English
Publication date	2012
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings - Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia Duration: 8 Jul 2012 → 12 Jul 2012 Conference number: 10 http://hb2012.org/

Conference

Conference	10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings
Number	10
Location	Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Country	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	08/07/2012 → 12/07/2012
Internet address	http://hb2012.org/

Bibliographical note

Paper no. 6E.1.

Keywords

Noise exposure
Simulated office work
Laboratory study

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