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1.Introduction
2.Planning foundations
2.1General legal foundations
2.1.1Pollution control rights
2.1.2Building law
2.1.3Civil Code, Criminal Code and Administrative Offences Act
2.2The physical terms "sound" and "noise"
2.3Noise, sound emission and sound immission
2.4Acoustic principles
2.4.1The sound scale
2.4.2Calculation rules
2.4.3Definitions of further terms
2.4.4Noise measurements
2.4.4.1The relevance of noise measurements
2.4.4.2The realization of measurements
2.4.4.3The measurement devices
2.5The effect of noise protection constructions
2.6Summary of noise assessment values based on immission values
3.Traffic noise
4.Industrial noise
5.Noise from sports and leisure facilities
6.Noise abatement plans / Noise action plans
7.Planning indications
8.Bibliography
9.Thematic Websites
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 2.4 Acoustic principles

The application of technical guidelines, standards and official ordinances on noise abatement requires a basic knowledge that goes beyond the principles given in sections 2.2 and 2.3. What still has to be treated is especially the measure for noise, its mathematical and metrological handling and its assessment.