From the loudest sound ever recorded to why a 1% gap leaks 50% of sound energy — twenty surprising facts about how sound behaves, why egg cartons don’t absorb it, and what humans actually hear.
New federal courthouse in Greenville, MS — ceiling baffles, column wraps, and fabric wall panels controlling reverb across courtrooms and jury areas, delivered for GSA with Duvall Decker, EskewDumezRipple, and Robins & Morton.
Full-building Lencore sound masking installed mid-renovation at Third Lake Partners’ Ybor City headquarters in Tampa — restoring privacy across an open, design-forward office without touching the historic interior finishes.
Acoustic ceiling tile and wall panels inside Tampa International Airport’s TRACON room — cutting reverb in a 24/7 air-traffic comms hub on night-shift schedules and zero-tolerance-for-downtime construction windows.
Every noise complaint starts with one question — is the sound coming through air or through structure? How to tell which you’re fighting, and the two completely different strategies for solving each.
Complete acoustic design for St. Stephen’s Episcopal School’s new STEAM Center in Bradenton — ACT, fabric-wrapped ceiling panels, and a stretched fabric wall keeping AV-heavy collaborative classrooms clear, focused, and quiet.
Precision acoustic build-out for Biohaven Pharmaceuticals on the 25th floor of One Flagler in West Palm Beach — 3,000 SF of high-NRC ceiling tile on a 9/16″ Suprafine grid for a sleek, quiet executive office environment.
Acoustic upgrades inside Florida’s oldest operating county courthouse — ACT and stretched fabric wall panels lifting courtroom speech clarity during a full third-floor renovation without disturbing the historic Osceola County interior.
Doors are the weakest acoustic link in most walls — why hollow cores leak as much as open vents, what a real door upgrade looks like (seals, sweep, mass, threshold), and the targets that make it worth the spend.
Custom stretched fabric wall systems wrapping Pier Sixty-Six Hotel’s grand ballrooms and pre-function corridors in Fort Lauderdale — more than 10,000 SF of high-NRC absorption tuned for high-traffic luxury events for Tavistock Development.










