Paragraph 87 Hotels

(1)

Any hotel forming part of the ERC must be designed and operated so as not to exceed the guideline internal noise levels referenced in British Standard BS 8233:2014^f1.

(2)

The plant room of any such hotel—

(a)

must be designed having had regard to the guidance set out in CIBSE Guide B4^f2, and

(b)

if and to the extent that that guidance indicates that vibration isolation measures are to be provided, must be constructed so as to incorporate such measures.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Guidance on sound insulation and noise reduction for buildings (ISBN 978 0 580 74378 8), published by the British

Standards Institution on 28th February 2014, available from https://knowledge.bsigroup.com.

f2

Guide B4 Noise and vibration control for building services systems (ISBN 978 1 906 84679 4), published by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers in June 2016, available at https://www.cibse.org/knowledge-research/knowledge-portal/guide-b4-noise-and-vibration-control-for-building-services-systems-2016/.