{"id":312382,"date":"2017-08-24T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=f8c24cf2fdc5bca76bd4bca726ded7fd"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:40:03","slug":"soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SonicLQ: Reconnecting Acoustics and Airtightness"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Early on in our work on energy-efficient homes, the connection between airtightness and sound centered on airport noise; now a new technology reconnects acoustics and air leakage        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/SonicLQ%20Description%20Illustration%20jpg%20v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SonicLQ system illustration\" width=\"144\" height=\"77\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/IMG_20170707_155439-800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"104\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/IMG_20170713_100519-800px.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/two-step%20ABIMS-800px.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"78\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/170602-F-IS743-004-800px.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"96\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in the early days of airport noise mitigation programs, there was a pretty strong link between air leakage and sound. A document titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnoise.com\/sites\/macnoise.com\/files\/pdf\/tips.pdf\">&ldquo;Tips for Insulating Your Home Against Aircraft Noise&rdquo;<\/a> noted, &ldquo;Sound travels from the exterior to the interior of the home in two ways: through solid structural elements and through the air&hellip;. Wherever air can infiltrate a home, sound can as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/soniclq-reconnecting-acoustics-and-airtightness\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6174,4715,5580,14609,14610],"class_list":["post-312382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-acoustics","tag-air-leakage","tag-airtightness","tag-sonic","tag-sound-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}