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SONarchitect is the ultimate tool to compute all the sound insulation in the entire building according to the Spanish Building Code CTE DB-HR. |
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The ultimate tool for the computation of the acoustic insulation in the entire building |
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SONarchitect CTE answers the growing demand of software for professionals of the building industry dealing with the Spanish Building Code, and specifically the Documento Básico de Protección frente al Ruido DB-HR.
SONarchitect CTE automatically computes every room in the building and generates the filing sheets in order to fulfill the requirements in acoustics of the CTE DB-HR.
Just by sketching the plans of the different building floors, SONarchitect CTE builts a 3D model of your building, identifies the volumes and surfaces, and computes the acoustic insulation to airborne and impact noise between every pair of rooms, together with reverberation times.
Opposite to the previous tools in the market, forcing the user to introduce the geometry and acoustic parameters of each pair of rooms at a time, SONarchitect works directly with the entire building, going through every pair of rooms to verify wether the design and selected materials comply with the quality standards required by the current regulations.
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SONarchitect CTE, always up-to-date |
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SONarchitect CTE is constantly updated with the latest editions of the Spanish Building Code and requirements.
You can buy SONarchitect CTE just by filling the order form.
SONarchitect CTE is avaliable in three different license modes: Academic, Professional and a Special Edition for Public Administrations.
For any enquires, please, contact our Spanish dealer by phone (+34) 652 77 00 34 or use the contact form. |
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SONarchitect not only verifies the compliance with DB-HR. After the computation SONarchitect CTE identifies the dominant transmission paths and also suggests possibly troublesome transmission paths. This is a valuable information to increase your productivity and achieve better acoustic performances of your projects.
Beyond the strict compliance with DB-HR, SONarchitect CTE qualifies the acoustic insulation of every room according to the quality levels (A/B/C/D/E) in the European standards (Denmark's DS 490:2001, Norway's NS 8175:2005, Sweden's SS 25267:2004, Suomi's SFS 5907:2004, Iceland's IST 45:2003, Germany's VDI 4100:1994, France's Guide Qualitel:2000, Netherland's NEN 1070:1999, Latvia's STR 2.01.07:2003). And it qualifies the whole building depending on the maximum, minimum and average insulation levels across all the enclosures. |
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The first one? Yes. And the best one. |
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SONarchitect was the first software in the market to compute the acoustic insulation in the entire building according to the standard UNE 12354.
Allowing the computation in the entire building, whatever the geometry, not only speeds up your projects, but also ensures that, whatever your level of expertise in acoustics, the compliance with the DB-HR is guaranteed, in contrast to other tools in the market which are only able to compute the acoustic insulation between two rooms: provided that the user will not take the time to model every pair of rooms in the building, no one can assure that the compliance of the modeled pairs conveys the compliance of the entire building.
And only SONarchitect CTE has the power and flexibility to compute the ENTIRE BUILDING with any arbitrary geometry. |
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SONarchitect includes in its database the last version (June '08) official Spanish Catalog of Building Solutions.
Any building solution can be selected and applied just by three mouse clicks, and the relevant acoustic parameters are shown for each solution to aid in the selection.
The database is customizable, allowing the user to introduce new solutions and materials. Also user palettes can be configured with the building solutions most often used in the different types of projects. |
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The close relationship of some of the engineers at Sound of Numbers with the authorities responsible of the Spanish Building Code, and a long experience in acoustic engineering, implies a thorough knowledge and insight on the peculiarities of the DB-HR and its application. As a result, some of the engineers at Sound of Numbers authored the official tool for the verification of the DB-HR.
Besides, the speed, robustness, and reliability of SONarchitect CTE rely on the rare skills of our developers in the resolution of computational geometry problems, allowing an optimal treatment of the building geometry including multiple heights, convex rooms, patios, etc.
The reliability of the computations and verifications performed by SONarchitect CTE has been demostrated in a real world project through a test building with in-situ measurements by an independent operator. See Validation for more details. |
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