Acoustic panel installation for a healthcare telecom and presentation room at Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans — Sabin-recalculated treatment bringing RT60 from 1.1 down to 0.78 seconds, comfortably under the ceiling-mic intelligibility threshold.
25
Jul
Jul
450 SF of NRC 1.05 stretched fabric wall added to Fins at Sharky’s upstairs fine-dining room above the Venice Pier — replacing an underperforming first round of 1″ NRC 0.7 panels with a recalculated Sabin spec and custom-cut tracks around lighting.
24
Jul
Jul
ASTC field testing plus a modular-wall vs drywall decision-tree framework developed for an Amgen Tampa corporate office — comparing Teknion partitions, Armstrong Calla tiles, and Lencore masking against full drywall to lock in office speech-privacy targets.
01
Jul
Jul
Floor Blokker acoustic membrane installed beneath floating LVT flooring across a new multi-family build in Wisconsin — running the maximum-performance install method validated by lab tests against both wood-frame and concrete subfloor types for Little Creek Construction.
07
May
May
Above-ceiling sound masking system installed at the Collaborative Counseling Center in Tarpon Springs — pink-noise-tuned speakers and hidden volume control engineered around a pitched plenum varying from 3 to 12 feet that was letting therapy speech leak between rooms.
01
May
May
MLV plus acoustic batting pipe lagging applied across all exposed HVAC and plumbing runs at Quality Distribution Inc.’s 45,000 SF Tampa headquarters — controlling rushing-water and rattle bleeding down from the 25-foot exposed concrete deck for 250 staff.
16
Apr
Apr
Acoustic fabric wall installation across multipurpose conference and education rooms inside Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa — engineered with a 2-day install window to fix excessive reverberation in the cancer center’s largest internal meeting spaces.
20
Mar
Mar
A real-room test with RT60 measurements at zero, four, and five panels — how the Sabine formula plays out in practice, what smartphone meters actually capture, and panel counts by room type you can pressure-test against.
20
Mar
Mar
What the absorption coefficient actually measures, how to read alpha values from 0 to 1, and how to use them to predict echo, reverb, material performance, and acoustic design results.
10
Mar
Mar
Why heavier studs reduce sound isolation — the counterintuitive physics of stiff partitions, what typically lands a wall at STC 40, and the changes that push it past code minimum.