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Course Information
Course Title : ACOUSTICS AND LIGHTING SYSTEM
Course Code : B.UTIL.3
Credit : 3 units (3 hours lecture)
Course Instructor : Ar. Rialino M. Alisbo, MsARCH, FUAP
Ar. Abemar Gegantoni, UAP
Contact Details : rialino.alisbo@lccbonline.edu.ph/ +639324507097
Consultation Schedule : Monday thru Friday, 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Helplines : Guidance (4349661 local 313); DSA (4349661 local312)
Introduction
Acoustics involves many areas. Knowledge in acoustics is important for many professional
engineers and architects, but also for professionals from other faculties, such as medical
doctors, psychologists, biologists, oceanographers, media professionals and so forth.
Knowledge in acoustics is essential to promote the creation of environments, both indoors
and outdoors, involving rooms with good listening conditions for speakers, musicians and
listeners and also living environments and working areas which are reasonably free from
harmful and/or intruding noise and vibrations and with acoustic comfort. In other words;
acoustics is a discipline of great importance for a sustainable development.
On the other hand “Light has the capacity to create an atmosphere much more than
furniture or an accessory can; it recreates unique sensations and experiences”. If it hasn’t
been done correctly it’s immediately noticeable. We can find ourselves in the most beautiful
space in the world, but if enough time hasn’t been dedicated to the study and design of the
lighting, our experience will leave us dissatisfied.
You will complete this course for one semester. This course is composed of eight (8)
units, namely:
Prelim
Unit 1 - Basic Theory of Acoustics
Unit 2 - Sound Absorption
Unit 3- Room Acoustics
Midterm
Unit 4- Sound Isolation
Unit 5 - Lighting Fundamentals and Vision
Finals
Unit 6- Properties of Light
Unit 7-Electric Light
Unit 8-Light and Form
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Reports - 10%
Tasks/Assignments - 20 %
Projects - 30 %
Examination (40%)
Prelim - 10%
Midterm - 10%
Final - 10%
100%
Attendance Policy
Considering the modality of instruction of this course (Correspondence), actual
attendance of students may not be required as in the traditional residential or classroom
setting. However, you should make sure that are present during the monitoring or follow-up
of your progress by your teacher, the Guidance Office or the Student Affairs Office. Your
attendance in any of these follow-up calls corresponds to your attendance in class.
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Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty in any form (bribery, plagiarism, cheating and fabrication of
documents will result in a failure on the academic task in question.
Unit 1
BASIC THEORY OF ACOUSTICS
Lesson 1
Introduction:
Lesson Objectives:
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
a. Discussed the different acoustical situations and requirements that should be
considered during the earliest stages of design.
b. Outlined the basic principles of architectural acoustics.
c. Understood the essential elements of architectural acoustics.
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Pre-Assessment: (LMS Classes) Prior to the start of the class, students will be
assessed according to the following:
(a) Prior experience/Knowledge
(b) Vocabulary
(c) Concept Knowledge
(d) Attitudes
(e) Personal Connections
Lesson Proper:
Learning Activities:
Task 1
The following videos will give you an introduction and preview of the history and
importance of Architectural Acoustics.
Watch the following videos on line and prepare a Reflection Paper regarding the
topics presented on the videos. The reflection paper should be between 300 and 500
words long, and should report some of your thoughts about the videos.
Submit your Reflection Papers via Google Mail on Thursday September 3, 2020.
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a. Topic:
Lecture (LMS Classes)
I will be discussing the topic during our virtual class on Google meet scheduled
on_________________, 2020. Google Meet Code will be sent to you via group chat
one day before the meeting.
Architectural acoustics is the study of sound in homes and other buildings and the
design of those structures for optimal acoustic performance, including control of
sound transmission throughout the building, maintaining conditions for good speech
intelligibility, and maintaining sound isolation for speech privacy.
All of the sounds we hear on a daily basis can contribute to a host of problems.
Environmental noise in particular, is an area of focus for European researchers who
have recently measured the health complications it can present. In addition to
negatively affecting the occupants’ energy level, those complications can include
everything from heart disease and tinnitus to sleep deprivation and cognitive
impairment, with the potential to take years off the average person’s life.
Environmental noise includes transportation noise – road traffic, railway and aircraft
– wind turbine noise and leisure noise. Leisure noise refers to all noise sources that
people are exposed to during activities such as attending nightclubs, restaurants,
fitness classes, live sporting events or live music venues, and listening to loud music
through personal listening devices.
Within the built environment, it would be easy to think that indoor noise might not
have any adverse impact compared to environmental noise. However, even within
the confines of a building, architectural acoustics play a significant role in the
occupant’s experience (e.g. environmental noise can be periodic and decrease during
evening hours and overnight, while excessive reverberation inside a room is always
present, interfering with every word spoken).
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light fixtures, mechanical systems and materials used in construction all have an
impact on a building’s acoustics. When the acoustical properties of materials are not
considered during the specification process, the result is too often a poor acoustical
environment. The conversation around healthier buildings often focuses on light and
air quality, but the noise levels also significantly impact health and wellbeing.
Increasingly, though, many industry standards, guidelines and building rating systems
now have acoustic criteria sections, elevating the importance of acoustics in building
occupant wellbeing.
In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its Environmental Noise
Guidelines for the first time since 1999, with new research confirming that noise has
negative impacts on human health and is becoming a growing concern. The data
shows that improving indoor environmental quality (IEQ) results in a substantial
benefit for occupants.
For patients:
Sudden noises can set off startle reflexes, leading to injury, increased blood
pressure and higher respiratory rates
Prolonged noise can contribute to memory problems, irritation, impaired pain
tolerance and perceptions of isolation
Reduced noise levels in intensive care units have been found to promote better
sleep and healing
Noise at all hours can lead to sleep deprivation which has been tied to longer
recovery, falls, dementia, higher re-hospitalization and worse medical outcomes.
c) Characteristics of Sound
When you are in school, you come to know when the period gets over. When
someone rings the doorbell at your door you can hear the sound. Suppose if
someone approaching you, you can make it out by hearing the footsteps itself.
Sound plays an important role in our daily lives. You hear many types of sound in
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our surroundings. How is the sound audible to you? Let us discuss these
characteristics of sound in detail.
Characteristics of Sound
The sound that we hear around us is the type of energy made by the vibration
that travels through the air or any other medium and can be heard when it
reaches a person’s ear. So, basically sound helps us to communicate with the
other person. For example, we can hear the musical instruments like tabla, flute,
a guitar due to vibration. The characteristics of sound are as follows:
Pitch
Loudness
Quality
Pitch
Pitch is a characteristic of sound by which a correct note can be distinguished
from a grave or a flat note. We can identify a female and male voice without
seeing them. The term ‘pitch’ is often used in music. Pitch depends upon the
frequencies of the sound wave. A note has a higher pitch when the frequency is
high and a note of low frequency has a low pitch. For example, when a small baby
speaks something, his/her voice has a higher frequency so in case of a baby the
pitch is higher than the pitch of a man. The sound with a high frequency is called
as shrill.
Loudness
The loudness is a sensation of how strong a sound wave is at a place. It is always a
relative term and is a dimensionless quantity. Loudness is measured in decibel
(dB). It is given as:
The loudness depends on the amplitude of the vibration. It will be louder when
the amplitude is high. Suppose when we pluck a string of the sitar it starts
vibrating with low amplitude and if we apply more energy by plucking more
strongly, the string will vibrate with the greater amplitude and produce a loud
sound. As the amplitude of vibration increases, sound also increases.
Quality
The word timbre also describes the term quality. As different sources produce
different sounds, the timbre helps us to distinguish between them. A sound of
good quality is pleasant to listen. The instruments are of different shapes and size
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and they produce different harmonics of loudness hence their sound can be
easily distinguished.
e) Reverberation Time
Persistence or prolongation of sound is known as Reverberation time. When is
too large in a hall, an overlapping of sounds and echo results. If the reverberation
is very less, the loudness will be insufficient, sound disappear quickly and become
inaudible. A satisfactory value = optimum reverberation time. Classrooms
reverberation times in the range of 0.4-0.6 seconds.
f) Sound Absorption
Sound absorption is the loss of sound energy when sound waves comes into
contact with an absorbent material such as ceilings, walls, floors and other
objects, as a result of which, the sound is not reflected back into the space.
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Sound absorption can be a particularly important factor for spaces such as:
Sports halls.
Schools.
Recording studios.
Lecture theatres.
Concert venues, cinemas and theatres.
Generally, sound absorption is applied in the form of treatment to floors, walls,
ceilings, partition surfaces and objects such as chairs or bookshelves. The use of
sound absorbing screens is also becoming more common.
Porous absorbents.
Resonance absorbents.
Single absorbents.
Usually a materials thickness has the greatest impact on its sound absorbing
qualities. The thickness of materials can be compensated for with air space
behind a wall panel or acoustic ceiling to improve performance at lower
frequencies.
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NB: Sound absorption is not the same as sound insulation which is used to
prevent sound travelling between separate spaces across a partition such as a
wall, ceiling or floor. Sound absorbing materials can convert some of the
absorbed sound energy into heat, rather than transmitting it, which improve
sound insulation, but it should not be seen as a substitute for adequate sound
insulation.
g) Sound Isolation
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Noise categories
Environmental noise is caused by industry and traffic. Domestic neighbours and
public entertainment venues can create a noise nuisance.
Consumer products – unwanted sound from a device or product which you use and
may have some control over
Noise sources
When you want to complain about noise, you need to identify the source and find
out if there is an organisation responsible for investigating the noise source.
Commercial and leisure noise includes entertainment, sports and leisure, petrol
stations, car washes, fast food outlets, bars, restaurants, offices, security alarms
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Domestic noise includes home entertainment such as loud music and television,
parties, animal noise, shouting, home security alarms
Street noise includes loudspeakers, ice cream van chimes, street traders, performers
and public addresses
b. Processing:
Task 2
Assignment
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c. Closure:
In this part of the Unit, the instructor will facilitate wrap-up at the end of the lesson – we will
have a quick review of the lesson ,so as to remind all of you what it was that you learned
(or should have learned) and will also allow your instructor to announce our next lesson.
Closure will allow each of you to summarize the main ideas and be able answer questions
posed at the beginning of the lesson, and link to both the past and the future.
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e. What are the important things you learned from the lesson? (Exhibiting student
learning.)
f. The next topic will be creating a smooth transition from one lesson to the next
lesson.
Correspondence Class
Students will be required to respond to the same questions above. Submission
however will be made thru my Facebook Messenger account on September ____,
2020, 2020 .
Timeline:
6 hours