Building Acoustics
Poitiers, New Aquitaine

In Poitiers, the Sud Europe Atlantique high-speed line and the A10 cross the built-up area and determine façade sound insulation across a broad swathe of the territory, with a high-speed rail spectrum distinct from conventional road noise. The Futuroscope hub also concentrates offices and hotels where open-plan floors and seminar rooms call for treatment of reverberation and confidentiality. Added to this are the university campus and the teaching hospital, whose teaching and care premises fall under specific intelligibility and discretion requirements. The predictive study prioritises these targets from the programming stage.

In Poitiers, urban density, the widespread use of outdoor heat pumps and neighbourhood noise nuisance make the acoustic study decisive: from the design stage, to size the sound insulation and avoid disputes at handover, then at acceptance, to certify NRA compliance and regulatory noise emergence.