As the height of high-rise residential buildings continues to increase throughout the world, wind-induced noise has increasingly become a source of complaints. Specifically, some tall residential buildings (typically greater than 30 stories or 100 meters in height) exhibit creaking and popping sounds in the interior walls or ceilings as the buildings sway in high wind conditions. Although the phenomenon has been studied in Australia and a product has been developed to mitigate the noises, there is less familiarity with the problem in the United States. The intent of this paper is to increase the awareness of the issue, presenting data from high-rise condominium buildings in the United States that exhibit the problem, discussing the mechanisms that may generate the noises, and providing guidelines for building design to mitigate the issue.
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