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Façades affect sound pressure levels and reverberation time in urban spaces and can affect people’s perception of the acoustic environment. The effects are classified into three groups: Effects of façades on the urban acoustic environment, including sound-reflecting, sound-absorbing and sound-producing effects; Effects of façades on the urban soundscape, including auditory and non-auditory effects; Effects of the context on the acoustic environment around façades, including boundary effects and atmospheric effects.\r\n"}],"user_id":"83781","quality_controlled":"1","article_number":"9670","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"_id":"8881","volume":15,"citation":{"chicago-de":"Balderrama, Alvaro, Jian Kang, Alejandro Prieto, Alessandra Luna-Navarro, Daniel Arztmann und Ulrich Knaack. 2022. 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Facade acoustics deals with the interaction of sound and the building envelope, and specialists in the field use digital tools to perform calculations and predictive analysis required to fulfil project goals or meet construction regulations. This review aims to give an overview of the different commercial software tools that can be relevant in facade acoustics, pointing out their general information such as their developer, their type of software and license, and the categories within facade acoustics where these tools can be applied. The tools are classified in five categories: Environmental noise modelling, sound insulation, noise mapping, auralization and 3D geometry manipulation. Design tools for acoustics that cannot address any aspect of facades specifically are excluded. 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