July 2007 Monthly Meeting

When
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Meeting Title
Building Acoustics
Location

Ankrom Moisan Architects

Presenters
Torbin Cooley, PE, Listen Acoustics
Description

Building acoustics is an area we hear about more and more frequently and often with respect to litigation. Tobin Cooley of Listen Acoustics will be presenting some of his knowledge on building acoustics. Tobin will discuss what is considered to be normal levels of noise in multi-family occupancies and discuss some of the issues to be concerned with in designing multi-family residential occupancies as well as various types of testing that can be done. He will also perform a listening example of the difference between various window types in reducing train or freeway noise.

Parking at Ankrom Moisan: A block north of Ankrom Moisan’s office, at a traffic light, SW Nebraska crosses SW Macadam. Turn east on Nebraska, cross the RR track then turn right (south) and enter Willamette Park, travels south a couple hundred feet, then left into a large public parking lot, you can park your car for one dollar. West of the parking lot is AMAA's building. On foot one could cross the road, then the RR track and progress up the exterior stairway to the Macadam ground floor entrance level of AMAA.