Quiet environment is essential for improving quality of living and rest. For example, noisy neighbors degrade quality of sleeping of residents. Due to emphasis on energy saving of buildings, more insulation and tighter sealing is applied for windows, doors, and walls of new buildings. As results, not only energy dissipation of new building is reduced, but also interior of new buildings have become significantly quieter. However, sound and heat insulation performance of existing buildings is relatively worse, when compared to that of recent buildings. As elapse of time, gap between bricks or concrete of building and sealing grows larger, worsening of sound and heat insulation performance of buildings is unavoidable. To provide quiet room for quality control of products or other purposes in noisy environment, indoor noise chamber is required in practice. In present work, sound transmission through indoor noise chamber is measured using different noise sources. For the worst case, noise source and sound transmission of door slam noise is shown.

It is important to increase the sound proof performance of building for reduction the influence of aircraft noise on the basic of actual survey of existed buildings. The purpose of this study is to propose the sound proof method about indoor noise of a movie theater due to aircraft. In this study, field measurement of aircraft noise level difference were carried out for 5 type aircraft. As the result, aircraft noise levels showed to be 83.6∼98.3dB(A) and indoor noise level were NC-50∼NC-65 over acceptable NC-30 in a movie theater. Noise reduction effect showed to be NC-15∼NC-30 in a movie theater.

Railway noise is one of the main causes of environment impact. Whenever a new railway line is planned or a housing project near an existing railway is proposed, an estimate of the relevant noise levels is usually required. For this, it is necessary to quantify those parameters that affect the railway noise. Therefore we investigated the noise level which subway trains generated passing through the block of test railway track between Hopo and Keumgok station in Busan. This paper shows the status and characteristics of the subway train noise and a subjective evaluation.