Green, but Acoustically Mean Buildings

NOT TRUE, LEED EBO&M Environmental Quality Credit 2.1 Specifically addresses thermal comfort, acoustics, indoor air quality....and other comfort issues. I have personally assisted a client with achieving this credit with remediative action from an occupant survey requesting sound dampening as well as another client who received an Innovation Credit for installing Acoustic tiles in a pre-K environment.

Interesting how this Design era compares with the Bauhaus in terms of lousy acoustics - now facilitated by use of Ipod Headphones and Bluetooth telephone headsets... then it was tinny little radio speakers or Phonograph horns with low frequency response hardly reaching the lower registers of human speech that were acceptable: contrast this design regime to the utterly acoustically functional overstuffed furniture of a fin de siecle living room which may of had a piano and singing! Art McKay