Sound advice demands a receptive audience.
Adrian Popplewell, an associate at a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Ramboll Acoustics, discusses the importance of good acoustics in the design of truly fit-for-purpose 21st Century healthcare buildings, agreeing that, as Florence Nightingale wrote in 1859: "Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted on the sick or well".
Ramboll Acoustics, Cambridge, UK.
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D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D009622:Noise / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006113:United Kingdom