Increasing environmental awareness has resulted in a large increase in the number of complaints about noise and vibration. Although many guidelines exist for noise and many excellent texts are available for vibration theory, few documents covering the practical aspects of investigating environmental vibration are readily accessible. This paper seeks to redress the balance by discussing the investigation of both the fear of building damage from vibration and the effects of whole body vibration within buildings.
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