© COST Office and authors (2014) The responsibility and copyright of each chapter belongs to the author(s). When quoting, it is mandatory to make proper reference to the book and/or the authors of the quoted chapter. Permission from copyright holder is required in case of reproducing contents of images, diagrams, tables or other material from other copyright holders. Building acoustics throughout Europe Volume 2: Housing and construction types country by country COST Action TU0901 Authors: P. Fausti 1 S. Secchi 2 A. Di Bella 3 F. Scamoni 4 13 Italy 1 Engineering Department, University of Ferrara 2 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Florence 3 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua 4 Construction Technologies Institute of the National Research Council of Italy, Milan