This document provides CIBSE recommended noise rating (NR) values for different types of internal areas. It lists various situations such as concert halls, bedrooms, offices, and kitchens along with their corresponding recommended NR values, which range from 20 to 50. Notes provide additional context, explaining that the ratings provide general guidance for total service noise levels, some adjustment may be appropriate, and the aggregate noise from multiple sources should meet the criterion.
This document provides CIBSE recommended noise rating (NR) values for different types of internal areas. It lists various situations such as concert halls, bedrooms, offices, and kitchens along with their corresponding recommended NR values, which range from 20 to 50. Notes provide additional context, explaining that the ratings provide general guidance for total service noise levels, some adjustment may be appropriate, and the aggregate noise from multiple sources should meet the criterion.
This document provides CIBSE recommended noise rating (NR) values for different types of internal areas. It lists various situations such as concert halls, bedrooms, offices, and kitchens along with their corresponding recommended NR values, which range from 20 to 50. Notes provide additional context, explaining that the ratings provide general guidance for total service noise levels, some adjustment may be appropriate, and the aggregate noise from multiple sources should meet the criterion.
This document provides CIBSE recommended noise rating (NR) values for different types of internal areas. It lists various situations such as concert halls, bedrooms, offices, and kitchens along with their corresponding recommended NR values, which range from 20 to 50. Notes provide additional context, explaining that the ratings provide general guidance for total service noise levels, some adjustment may be appropriate, and the aggregate noise from multiple sources should meet the criterion.
Concert halls, opera halls, studios for sound reproduction, live theatres (>500 seats).
20
Bedrooms in private homes, live theatres (<500 seats), cathedrals and large churches, television studios, large conference and lecture rooms (>50 people).
25
Living rooms in private homes, board rooms, top management offices, conference and lecture rooms (20-50 people), multi-purpose halls, churches (medium and small), libraries, bedrooms in hotels, etc., banqueting rooms, operating theatres, cinemas, hospital private rooms, large courtrooms.
30
Public rooms in hotels, etc., ballrooms, hospital open wards, middle management and small offices, small conference and lecture rooms (<20 people), school classrooms, small courtrooms, museums, libraries, banking halls, small restaurants, cocktail bars, quality shops.
35
Toilets and washrooms, drawing offices, reception areas (offices), halls, corridors, lobbies in hotels, etc., laboratories, recreation rooms, post offices, large restaurants, bars and night clubs, department stores, shops, gymnasia.
NR50 will generally be regarded as very noisy by sedentary workers but most of the classifications listed under NR45 could just accept NR50. Higher noise levels than NR50 will be justified in certain manufacturing areas; such cases must be judged on their own merits.
Notes: 1.
The ratings listed above will give general guidance for total services noise but limited adjustment of certain of these criteria may be appropriate in some applications.
2.
The intrusion of high external noise levels may, if continuous during occupation, permit relaxation of the standards but services noise should be not less than 5 dB below the minimum intruding noise in any octave band to avoid adding a significant new noise source to the area.
3.
Where more than one noise source is present it is the aggregate noise which should meet the criterion.
4.
NR is approximately equal to dB(A) value - 6.
The table is reproduced from the CIBSE guide, section A1: Environmental criteria for design (1986) with the permission of the CIBSE, London.
