Design Guide 30: Sound Isolation and Noise Control in Steel Buildings [N9A]

Modern buildings must protect their occupants from excessive noise intrusion, assure their acoustical comfort and provide favorable conditions for listening and communication. In order to achieve these goals efficiently and economically, building designers need to take the relevant considerations into account beginning early in the design process and to pursue their proper implementation. The new AISC Design Guide 30--Sound Isolation and Noise Control in Steel Buildings provides the design team with readily accessible background information and with guidance aimed at achieving acoustical conditions suitable for a building's planned occupancies. It also discusses sound isolation in detail--including the related metrics, effects of structural parameters and acoustical treatments, the effects of ""weak links"" such as acoustically inappropriate windows and gaps at doors, and the isolation performance of wall configurations that are widely used in steel buildings.

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