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(quoted from the ASA program for the Fall 2009 San Antonio meeting and confirmed by Noral Stewart who is participating in the current classroom acoustics standard discussions)

“The US Access Board has proposed to reference ANSI/ASA S12.60-2002 R-2009 in the 2012 International Building Code IBC, which will provide for local enforcement.  If this proposal is adopted, the Board will then update its 2004 ADA-ABA Accessibility Guidelines to harmonize with the IBC…”

This is part of an ongoing effort by the US Access Board to incorporate classroom acoustics into ADA rules.

The classroom acoustics standard is up for revision and is thus being reviewed to make it more suitable for use in the building code (IBC), and to address other concerns raised as it was put into practice over the last 7 years, including mobile classrooms, the outdoor to indoor noise isolation requirements, doors, windows, clarifying language on core learning spaces and discussing a proposal offered to lower the RT (reverberation time) requirement.

Comments are welcome and will be passed along to Noral Stewart who is participating in the working group.

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