When acoustics lend an ear to biodiversity.
In the shadow of climate change, there's a subject that gets far less media coverage than global warming, but which could make a big splash. It's the state of sound on our planet, and in particular in the living world. There's no such thing as silence on Earth; noise is constantly being heard. Sometimes a source of annoyance, noise is above all a vector of information as surprising as it is varied.
Acoustics and noise in the era of low-carbon and energy transition
Driven primarily by the challenges of sustainable development, low-carbon and societal concerns, wood construction is on the increase in the design of new and renovation programs, whatever the purpose (housing, offices, hotels, cultural facilities). From an acoustic point of view, these new complexes in the French construction landscape raise a number of questions.