| Abstract: | Sound‐absorbing raised floors. Concrete core cooling is increasingly used as a temperature control method for office buildings. Concrete core cooling systems are integrated in slabs and preclude the installation of sound‐absorbing suspended ceilings, which would reduce the performance of such systems to uneconomical levels. Sound‐absorbing raised floors offer an alternative to sound‐absorbing ceilings. More than 60 sound absorption coefficient measurements were carried out in a reverberation chamber for different fitted carpets, sound‐absorbing raised floors and combinations thereof. This paper describes the different floor configurations and the corresponding sound absorption coefficients. |
