Acoustic Building Regulations

Learn about the acoustic regulations related to your project and country. For each country,
goverment issued regulations or technical guidance documents are provided alongside a supporting
ROCKWOOL guidance handbook.

England

Approved Document E covers the regulations surrounding ‘Resistance to the passage of sound’ which
includes:

 Protection against sound from other parts of the building and adjoining buildings

 Protection against sound within a dwelling house

 Reverberation in the common internal parts of buildings containing flats or rooms for
residential purposes

 Acoustic conditions in schools

ROCKWOOL have created an accompanying guidance document which provides a quick and easy
reference guide of typical constructions using ROCKWOOL insulation products that will assist the end
user in meeting the performance levels required by Part E/G of the Building Regulations for England,
Wales and Northern Ireland.

Download ROCKWOOL Guidance

Scotland

The purpose of the standards in Section

5 domestic, non domestic is to limit the
transmission of sound to a level that will not
threaten the health of occupants from
sound transmission deriving from attached
buildings and a differently occupied part of
the same building. They also cover sound
from within the same dwelling if occupants
are in rooms where they would expect to
have some degree of peace and quiet.

ROCKWOOL has created a supporting

guidance document which provides a quick
and easy reference of typical constructions
using ROCKWOOL insulation products that
will assist the end user in meeting the performance levels required by Section 5 of the Scottish
Building Regulations.

Download ROCKWOOL Guidance

Wales
Approved Document E covers the regulations surrounding ‘Resistance to the passage of sound’ which
includes:

 Protection against sound from other

parts of the building and adjoining buildings

 Protection against sound within a

dwelling house

 Reverberation in the common

internal parts of buildings containing flats or
rooms for residential purposes

 Acoustic conditions in schools

ROCKWOOL have created an accompanying

guidance document which provides a quick
and easy reference guide of typical
constructions using ROCKWOOL insulation
products that will assist the end user in
meeting the performance levels required by
Part E/G of the Building Regulations for
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Download ROCKWOOL Guidance

Republic of Ireland (ROI)

Technical Guidance Document E provides

guidance in relation to Part E of the Second
Schedule to the Regulations. It should be
read in conjunction with the Building
Regulations 1997-2014, and other
documents published under these
Regulations. This document applies to
dwellings and some common areas of
buildings providing direct access to
dwellings. It gives guidance in relation to
the achievement of reasonable sound
insulation in non-complex buildings of
normal design and construction. Specialist
advice may be needed in certain situations
to establish if a higher standard of sound
insulation is required and, if so, to
determine the appropriate level.

ROCKWOOL has created a supporting

document which provides a quick and easy reference guide of typical constructions using ROCKWOOL
insulation products that will assist the end user in meeting the performance levels required by the
Part E of the Building Regulations in Ireland.
Download ROCKWOOL Guidance

Northern Ireland

Part G of the Building Regulations sets out

the requirements for the resistance to the
passage of sound in buildings and covers the
following:

 Protection against sound from other

parts of the building and from adjoining
buildings

 Protection against sound within a

dwelling or room for residential purposes

 Reverberation in the common

internal parts of buildings containing flats or
rooms for residential purposes

 Acoustic conditions in schools

ROCKWOOL have created an accompanying

guidance document which provides a quick
and easy reference guide of typical
constructions using ROCKWOOL insulation products that will assist the end user in meeting the
performance levels required by Part E/G of the Building Regulations for England, Wales and Northern
Ireland.

Download ROCKWOOL Guidance