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Case Studies

Drop Ceiling Soundproofing: How to Stop Plenum Flanking Through ACT

Posted on January 3, 2017May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Drop Ceiling Soundproofing How to Stop Plenum Flanking Through ACT
03
Jan

Drop Ceiling Noise Blokker polymer tiles installed above 300+ ACT panels in USF’s student government offices in Tampa — sealing the plenum flanking path between offices whose partition walls stopped at the ceiling grid, finished in a single school-break window.

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Case Studies

Fine Dining Restaurant Acoustics: RT60 0.7s for Conversational Dining

Posted on January 3, 2017May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Fine Dining Restaurant Acoustics RT60 - Cena Restaurant
03
Jan

2″ fiberglass ceiling clouds and matching custom-fabric wall panels installed across Cena Italian restaurant’s tall-ceilinged Channelside dining room in Tampa — pulling RT60 from 1.1 down to 0.7 seconds to hit the fine-dining conversational target.

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Library Sound Masking: Pinellas County Reading Privacy

Posted on December 19, 2016May 26, 2026 by Austin Peek
Library Sound Masking Pinellas County Reading Privacy
19
Dec

Sound Masking Classic system installed inside a Pinellas County Library reading room next to a noisy maker space — ceiling-tile-concealed speakers on 15-foot centers tuned to 45 dBA so traditional STC fixes weren’t needed at the walls that stopped short of the deck.

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Recruiter Office Soundproofing: KForce St. Louis Interview Rooms

Posted on December 19, 2016May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Recruiter Office Soundproofing KForce Interview Rooms - St. Louis, MO
19
Dec

Wall Blokker membrane on metal-stud demising walls plus Drop Ceiling Noise Blokker on the transition-zone ACT for KForce’s St. Louis recruiter field office — hitting STC 56 between the bullpen, conference, and interview rooms without rebuilding to the deck.

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Hotel Soundproofing Guide: STC Ratings & Acoustics Standards

Posted on December 2, 2016May 27, 2026 by Austin Peek
Hotel Soundproofing Guide STC Ratings Acoustics Standards
02
Dec

Hotel acoustics by the numbers — STC 50 versus STC 55, the wall assemblies that actually meet flag standards, the common detail failures behind guest complaints, and fast upgrades for existing properties.

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Multi-Family Floor Soundproofing: Austin, Texas

Posted on November 9, 2016May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Multi-Family Floor Soundproofing in Austin, TX - Berkshire Santal
09
Nov

75,000 SF of Floor Blokker membrane installed beneath hickory hardwood across Berkshire Santal’s luxury Austin apartments — beating code by 13 ASTC points with BAI field-tested results of ASTC 58 and AIIC 52 on the worst-case open-web truss floor assembly.

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Museum Acoustics Solutions: The Morean Art Museum

Posted on October 12, 2016May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Museum Acoustics Solutions The Morean Art Museum
12
Oct

Six 4×4 ceiling clouds installed across three Morean Arts Center galleries in St. Petersburg during a bamboo-to-concrete flooring renovation — Sabin-recalculated to hold RT60 at 1.4 seconds through the floor swap and color-matched into the existing gallery design.

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Media Room Drywall Soundproofing: STC 41 in a Custom Home

Posted on October 11, 2016May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Media Room Drywall Soundproofing STC 41 in a Custom Home
11
Oct

Wall Blokker Pro membrane layered behind the drywall inside a custom Westshore luxury home in Tampa — lifting standard 2×4 demising walls from STC 32 to STC 41 across three sensitive media and bedroom adjacencies during the framing-to-drywall sequence.

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Office Background Noise: White Noise Side Effects in the Workplace

Posted on September 13, 2016May 27, 2026 by Austin Peek
Office Background Noise White Noise Side Effects in the Workplace
13
Sep

What office background noise actually does to focus and cognition — the documented side effects of white noise systems, when masking helps, when chatter hurts most, and how to design noise floors that support productivity.

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Retail Commercial Partition Soundproofing: STC 34 to 40

Posted on August 15, 2016May 25, 2026 by Austin Peek
Retail Commercial Partition Soundproofing STC 34 to 40
15
Aug

OverWall Blokker membrane bonded to one side of an existing retail-strip partition in Valrico, FL — lifting an STC 34 wall to STC 40 between an automotive parts distributor and its karate-studio neighbor without demolition or tenant relocation downtime.

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