What is ISO 22955 about?
ISO 22955 provides technical guidance to achieve the acoustic quality of open office spaces to support dialogue and formal commitment between the various stakeholders involved in the planning, design, construction or layout of open-plan workspaces: end customers, project owners, prescribers, consultants, etc.
ISO 22955 is applicable to all open-plan offices in which the following activities are performed:
- Space type 1: activity not known yet – vacant floor plate
- Space type 2: activity mainly focusing on outside of the room communication (by telephone/audio/ video)
- Space type 3: activity mainly based on collaboration between people at the nearest workstations
- Space type 4: activity based on a small amount of collaborative work
- Space type 5: activity that can involve receiving public
- Space type 6: combining activities within the same space
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More specifically, ISO 22955 applies to refit projects of existing business sites (renovation and/ or change or add activities) and layout projects for new spaces and spaces delivered unfurnished.
Who is ISO 22955 for?
ISO 22955 on the acoustic quality of open office spaces is useful for:
- End customers (diagnosis, survey, expression of needs in keeping with their knowledge in the area of acoustics)
- Project owners
- Project management companies (architects, acousticians, ergonomists, economists and consulting engineers)
- Building traders
- Building developer
- Specialists in occupational health, safety and quality
- Expert assessments and consultancy
Why should you use ISO 22955?
ISO 22955 aims to help you with a good level of acoustic comfort. ISO 22955 is meant as a basis
for discussion and dialogue between the stakeholders involved in creating office spaces. In particular, it is intended for project owners to fine-tune the drafting of the acoustic specifications and help project management companies decide upon their objectives and the resources linked to the architecture and layout of open-plan offices.
ISO 22955 provides principles, descriptors and measurement methods to characterise acoustics, which is easy to use and correspond to the perception of the acoustical environment by the occupants of the spaces. It provides an opportunity to reflect further, by analysis of activities that involve more or less collaboration on the one hand, and by addressing everything that constitutes an open-plan space on the other, in particular in terms of surface treatments and additional office layout such as furniture, acoustic screens or low dividers, etc.
ISO 22955 helps establish a link between acoustic quality and acoustic performance to be achieved in an open office. The principles and descriptors apply to usual situations in terms of acoustic disturbance, privacy and discretion. It also includes the working practices inherent to these spaces and the expectations of your organisations that use them regarding productivity and the well-being of employees.
ISO 22955 reflects the technological and economic context of office construction in relation to both operations in unfurnished offices and resulting layout practices.
ISO 22955 provides you technical guidance to achieve the acoustic quality of open office spaces. In addition, it reflects your expectations based on the experience from the members of the commission and publications.