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Through this study, two focuses are being considered for making progress in reducing sound discomfort in open-plan offices. The first focus for progress relates to developing calculation and prediction tools making it possible, as of the design…

Open plan office users complain of two annoyances due to noise. The first annoyance is lack of concentration and the second annoyance is the reduction of the confidentiality of conversations. The rapid prediction of the acoustic work environment…

Open plan office users complain of two annoyances due to noise. The first annoyance is the lack of concentration and the second annoyance is the reduction of the confidentiality of conversations. The rapid prediction of the acoustic work environment…

Open plan office users complain of two annoyances due to noise. The first annoyance is lack of concentration and the second annoyance is the reduction of the confidentiality of conversations. The rapid prediction of the acoustic work environment…

More and more frequently used by the companies of the tertiary sector, the open-plan office is a type of work organization which both enables to increase the occupation density and facilitates the oral communication between colleagues. Nevertheless…

Acoustical indicators currently used to qualify the satisfaction of workers towards sound in open-plan spaces are not always adapted to the situation as far as they aim at describing the acoustical properties of empty rooms (DL2, Tr, D2S). Those…

Since open plan office users often complain of annoyance due to noise, it is critical to consider acoustic quality when designing such a workspace. This can be achieved with acoustic simulation methods, however, it is often difficult to obtain…

Open plan offices are now the most common form of workspaces organisation. They can improve communication between workers while saving space. Their main drawbacks are the lack of intimacy for occupants and the increase of noise level. Noise is…

The cognitive performance of employees in open-plan offices is impaired by the presence of speech sounds, all the more so when the intelligibility of the speech signals is improved. For that reason, speech intelligibility measures are used to…

In open-plan offices, employees often have to work despite being distracted by multiple sources of speech close to them. This disturbance is even more severe when the surrounding conversations are intelligible. For this reason the disruptive…