Interlaboratory Test for Field Evaluation of Noise from Equipment in Residential Buildings

In this work the organization of an Interlaboratory Test (also called Round Robin Test) on equipment noise is described and some preliminary results are presented. The first choice for RRT location was the construction site of a residential building. After a first session of measurements many problems occurred: very low sound pressure level of equipment and very high background noise due to traffic. So a change in the measurement site has been necessary. As new measurement site an office of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova was chosen.