Abstract
Laboratories for research and production usually feature work areas complete with exhaust equipment as well as specific equipment (e.g. heaters, shakers, etc.). More to the point, such research and production areas are often linked to open plan offices where workers process their results, as well as partitioned offices where supervising engineers or researchers work. Suchfitting out is supposed to help circulate information around the team and save valuable space. Unfortunately, it easily can be noisy and rather uncomfortable, especially when coming from older fully partitioned laboratories and offices. This paper aims to illustrate a few acoustical highlights of laboratories through a few cases studies, looking at such parameters as spatial sound level decay, background noise level and reverberation time, but also at such additional factors as general background and psychological aspects, and looking at tentative standards. It turns out that both the acoustical quality of the room and the space planning must be developed according to the users' needs.
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