Achieving acoustical satisfaction in a green building

The Carnegie Institution’s Global Ecology Research Center at Stanford University has garnered many accolades, including the AIA’s Excellence in Sustainability Award. This building incorporates many ‘‘green’’ and energy‐saving design features, mechanical systems, and materials. The occupants of this facility have given it high marks in U.C. Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment’s (CBE) survey of buildings. Staff at the Global Ecology Research Center are shown to be more satisfied with their acoustical environment than occupants of other green buildings surveyed by CBE. Measured acoustical data for speech privacy in open plan and enclosed conference rooms will be presented along with descriptions of acoustical design attributes for the building.