Study on the Acoustic Environment Characteristics of Open-plan Offices with Different Layout Types
The acoustic environment of open-plan offices has a significant impact on the comfort,job satisfaction and work efficiency of staff.The commonly used layout types of open-plan offices include Hive,Den,and Club types,and different layouts of open-plan offices have different acoustic environmental characteristics.Based on Odeon architectural acoustics simulation software,three kinds of open-plan office acoustic environment simulation models were established in this paper.The models can be used to simulate and calculate the parameters of the open office acoustic environment,such as spatial decay rate of speech D2 s,A-weighted speech level at 4 m distance Lp,A,s,4m and distraction distance rD and privacy distance rP.Then,the effectiveness of the models was verified through on-site measurements of three layout types of open-plan offices and a comparison between measured data and simulation results.Finally,based on these models,this paper compared and analyzed the acoustic environment of open-plan offices with different layout types and discussed the acoustic environment characteristics of Hive,Den,and Club type open-plan offices.The method and results of this paper can provide a reference for theoretical research and optimized design of open-plan office acoustic environment.
building acousticsopen-plan officesacoustic environmentOdeon,layout type